Open AccessCHAMU: An effective approach for improving the recycling of tea waste
Author(s) -
Pin Gao,
Yoshito Ogata
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/711/1/012024
Subject(s) - raw material , waste management , biomass (ecology) , environmental science , pulp and paper industry , engineering , chemistry , agronomy , organic chemistry , biology
With the development of tea production, treating tea waste has become a problem that cannot be ignored. Here, we reprocessed tea waste to create a new kind of biomass material and named it “CHAMU”. We found that tea waste is a good fiber raw material and can improve the degradation rate of PLA composites in the soil. Based on the above findings, we established a tea waste recycling system. During the processing, it was found that tea stems, tea residue had better plasticity than wood-shaving materials. According to this characteristic, we designed a series of “CHAMU products” to explore “CHAMU” materials in product design.