Recycled polymeric materials recovered from E-waste, have gained importance in the recent years, due to the value addition of properties in the recycled materials. In the current work, a polymeric blends formulated from keyboard waste plastics was value added using a flame retardant (FR), and these plastics are not incorporated with FR during its processing. This work was carried out to enhance the FR property of polymers recovered from keyboard waste, and to study the effects of these additives on the mechanical properties of the polymeric blends. The FR tri phenyl phosphate (TPP), and a hybrid FR combining TPP with sepiolite, was added in different proportions to the blend. The FR blends were analyzed with UL-94 and LOI and it was observed that the blends with hybrid FR showed higher FR properties, as the results of UL-94 and LOI showed V-1 and 29%, respectively. The cone calorimetry results showed that the peak heat release rate of the blends was improved from 704 to 533 KJ/m 2 . The gas and condensed phase reaction has been explained with an illustration. FTIR and TGA with and without the FR were performed. The mechanical properties of the blends drastically reduced after the addition of FRs, hence an impact modifier was added in order to regain the lost mechanical properties, and a morphological analysis was carried out to compare the influence of impact modifier in the polymeric blend.gas and condensed phase mechanism, E-waste recycling, hybrid flame retardants, sepiolite, tri phenyl phosphate
| INTRODUCTIONFlame retardancy is an important property of polymers used in EEE applications. Most of the polymers used for the electrical and electronic equipments (EEE) applications are acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), high impact polystyrene (HIPS), polystyrene (PS), polycarbonate/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (PC/ABS), polyamide (PA) and so on. The effective flame retardants (FR) used in engineering