The Effect of Adding Plastic Bottle PET Waste in the Making of Sawdust Particleboard

Abstract

One of the derivative products from wood processing materials is particle board made from sawmills waste. This research tries to examine experimentally, how the physical and mechanical behavior of particleboard if in its manufacture it is added with plastic beverage bottle waste made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This research was conducted with the aim of reusing used plastic bottles which could improve the physical and mechanical behavior of particleboard with the proportion of a mixture of sawdust and plastic bottles 50 : 50; 60 : 40; 70 : 30. PET measuring 1 cm x 5 cm is not used in the mixture, because the results are not good enough, then crushed PET is used, pressing temperature 200 •c,pressing time 20 minutes, density of all test samples meet the standards, moisture content only C test samples meets the standards, water absorption are not required by the standard, swelling in thickness, samples of B and C tests which meets the standard sare, MOE all test samples do not meet the standards, MOR all test samples meet the standards, internal bonding only test sample C meets the standards, screw holding power all test samples did not meet the standards.