Abstract:
Recycling is a way to process, the used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste
of potentially useful materials. Textile waste recycling becomes more important
phenomenon, bearing in mind the limited availability of resources to produce natural fibres as
well as fossil raw materials to make synthetic fibres. Recycled textile waste can be further
converted in the form of fibre for filling, recycled yarn, recycled woven fabric, recycled
nonwoven fabrics etc. Therefore, the present study has been conducted to prepare nonwoven
fabric by use of recycled medical masks and pineapple leaf fibres.
In a singular period, such as during a pandemic, the use of personal protective masks can
become mandatory for all citizens in many places worldwide. The most used device is the
disposable mask that, inevitably, generates a substantial waste flow to send to incineration or
landfill. The article examines the most diffused type of disposable face mask and identifies
the characteristic of the constituent materials through morphological, chemical, physical, and
thermal analyse.
