• Alpana Shah
• Namrita Kola

Accumulation of textile waste on landfill site is gradually becoming a major issue for concern as it creates air, soil and water pollution directly or indirectly. Recycling of industrial textile waste is today’s need. Thus, a research was carried out to study the mechanical properties of yarns obtained as waste from textile and fiber reinforced plastic units of Ahmedabad city. Post-producer textile yarn waste which consisted of cotton, polyester, lycra were collected , chopped, mixed with glass fiber in their original form using epoxy resin in presence of a catalyst. Afterwards a sheet was produced. Later on the tensile, elongation, flexural and impact test were studied. It was observed that mixing of textile yarns with glass waste yarns reduces brittleness and hardness of glass yarns.

textile industry, yarn waste, post producer, cotton, glass, tensile strength.

"TEXTILE WASTE RECYCLING—A NOVEL APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.361-367, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRK006051.pdf

"TEXTILE WASTE RECYCLING—A NOVEL APPROACH", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp361-367, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRK006051.pdf