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Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE): An Update
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
This presentation provides an update on CARE, including Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), overall progress, and committees and their activities. Efforts to support research, development, and commercialization will be ...
Cyntech Technologies' Highly Efficient and High Capacity System for Conversion of Mixed Carpet Fibers into Fuels
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
Cyntech Technologies is implementing technology that will convert mixed carpet fibers (or almost any mixed plastics) into fuels such as ethanol, syngas, low sulfur diesel fuel, LPGs, etc. This highly efficient and profitable ...
Compounds and Products from Carpet and Tire Waste
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-13)
Compounds containing crumb tire rubber and 40-60% carpet scrap have been developed. They can be cured with peroxides in compression molding process to produce thermoset plastic products of varying flexibility, such as roof ...
Development of Engineered Acoustically Tunable Lightweight Automotive Components Utilizing Waste Fiber/Yarn
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
This paper presents a case study of utilizing waste streams from diverse fiber/yarn products to create engineered automotive acoustic components. Cost, weight, acoustic performance and recyclabiHty are important attributes ...
State of Plastics Recycling
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
The number of plastics recycling businesses has tripled since 1990, with more than 1,700 businesses handling and reclaiming post-consumer plastics. Through their support of economically and environmentally responsible and ...
TIRECYCLE™ Technology in Advanced Recycling of Post Consumer Carpet
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
The TIRECYCLE technology enables post-consumer carpet, at 100% grind, to be effectively co-reacted with post consumer cured scrap rubber to create families of useful molding and extrusion compounds, both thermoset and ...
Use of Recycled Post-Consumer Carpets as Building Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-13)
In response to the need for developing and marketing products from post consumer carpets, we identified certain products as building and construction materials from the perspectives of designers (Architects and Engineers), ...
LEED: Understanding the Requirements
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System is rapidly becoming the standard and benchmark for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings. This presentation offers an ...
Coal Fly Ash - A New High Performance Mineral Filler for Improved Environmental Sustainability in the Carpet Industry
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-13)
This paper discusses the role of coal fly ash as a high performance mineral filler for use in carpet backing that has the potential to provide significant improvements in environmental sustainability in the carpet industry, ...
Current Status of Fiber Waste Recycling in Japan
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003-05-12)
The total fiber consumption in Japan is 2,317,000 tons per year, and 2,076,000 tons of fiber waste is abandoned each year. This talk summarizes the consumption, generation, and recycling of fibrous waste in Japan. As the ...