Mechanical properties of recycled polyolefin composites

Over the years, there has been a growing interest among researchers to produce composite materials based on recycled thermoplastic matrices, which are available as waste materials in massive fraction. Evaluation of mechanical properties of these recycled or waste materials is one of the important scopes to be studied in the field of composite materials. The current book chapter reviewed the developments of recycled polyolefin matrix composite material, emphasizing their detailed mechanical performance such as tensile strength and elasticity modulus, flexural properties, impact strength, and so on. The focus was laid on the effect of blend composition, the effect of natural reinforcements such as rice husk fibers, wood flour fibers, the effect of artificial reinforcements such as glass fibers, and the effect of nano-sized filler such as nanoclay and carbon nanotubes in the recent development from 2015 to date. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023.