New industrial products or invention made from recycled material had become major attraction in order to save the environment and cost as well. An attempt to make a plastic base industrial product from a blend of recycled clothes and polypropylene nanoclay had been discussed in this article. Basically, some of the clothes originated from polymer was recycled as filler material for a compound for injection molding process. The process started by shredding the used clothes into a powder and mix it with polypropylene-nanoclay nanocomposites. Three colors of recycled clothes were chosen which are red, blue and yellow. All samples produced from this process went to several testing such as tensile, warpage, and shrinkage. Based on the results of tensile test, the highest average Young’s Modulus value with the 502.104 MPa for 3% of recycled fiber from recycled clothes. Furthermore, the Young’s Modulus value for polypropylene- nanoclay without fiber was lowest as compared with other samples. The value of average shrinkage is 0.01482 mm. From the result also showed that the average warpage was 0.0332 mm. Based on the analysis, it can be assumed that the product of recycled clothes/polypropylene/nanoclay have a stable shrinkage but variation of warpage values. Hence, more focus was needed to control the warpage value to reduce this defect during manufacturing process. The outcome of this research should be beneficial in the future of plastic manufacturing process, in terms reducing cost of raw material and at the same time, the environmental pollution impact also can be reduced.
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