{"id":144781,"date":"2022-08-25T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/ppe-can-be-recycled-to-make-stronger-concrete"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:24:52","slug":"ppe-can-be-recycled-to-make-stronger-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/ppe-can-be-recycled-to-make-stronger-concrete","title":{"rendered":"PPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ppe-can-be-recycled-to-make-stronger-concrete.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at RMIT University have developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste.<\/p>\n<p>The RMIT team is the first to investigate the feasibility of recycling three key types of PPE\u2014isolation gowns, face masks and rubber gloves\u2014into concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journals <i>Case Studies in Construction Materials<\/i>, <i>Science of the Total Environment<\/i> and <i>Journal of Cleaner Production<\/i>, the studies by RMIT School of Engineering researchers demonstrate the potential for PPE to be used as reinforcement materials in structural concrete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at RMIT University have developed a method to use disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) to make concrete stronger, providing an innovative way to significantly reduce pandemic-generated waste. The RMIT team is the first to investigate the feasibility of recycling three key types of PPE\u2014isolation gowns, face masks and rubber gloves\u2014into concrete. Published in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}