Generating waste is part of any social organization, and acquires a higher relevance with the emergence of important settlements within a population, which require adequate management, the goal of which is to not generate negative impacts on health and the environment. In the field of construction, half of the materials used come from the earth crust. In 2008, for example, in the European Union alone, 450 million tons of construction and demolition waste were produced. This makes up over a quarter of the total waste generated. In Chile, according to the results of surveys carried out by the National Corporation on the Environment (Corporación Nacional del Medio Ambiente), the estimated production of solid waste in the country for the year 2009 was 16.9 million tons, of which 6.5 million tons corresponded to municipal waste and 10.4 million tons to industrial waste. In Chile, for the past few years, the construction sector has been gaining awareness of the great environmental impact that it generates through its buildings, because of which, it has attempted to normalize and promote sustainable work procedures that are emerging as a response to this problem: the use of renewable, reusable, and recyclable materials that have a positive impact on the population in economic, social, and environmental ways. It is due to this that the present research was developed with the goal of creating a composite material of wood and plastic, made from raw recycled materials, verifying their physical and mechanical characteristics in an attempt to contribute with a new alternative to construction elements in accordance with national and international standards in order to satisfy the needs that currently exist in the construction market in light of environmental sustainability..

Desarrollo y evaluación de un material compuesto hecho de polietileno reciclado Teraftalato y Eucayptus Nitens Sawdust para ser utilizado en la construcción

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