Plastics are seemingly everywhere in the world today. In this plastics age, plastics are replacing metal, wood, paper and ceramic products in most industries today. These industries include transportation, medical, retail and electronics. The key feature of thermoplastics is the fact that the material can be heated and formed multiple times. Recycling is one of the advantages of thermoplastics[1]. Commodity thermoplastics include Polyethylene Terepthalate (PET), High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) .Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE), Polypropylene (PP), Polystyrene (PS) and Other Plastics. Metro Solid Waste (MSW) contains around 40% of post consumer plastics, among which 30% of recyclable thermoplastics[2]. Since, the removal of MSW is one of the major issues of this century, this kind of research is necessary, to convert the thermoplasticsolid wastes as a useful electronic material. In this study, new nanocomposite dielectric materials were produced from the components of recycled thermoplastic as the matrix and montmorillonite as the filler by using a co- rotating twin screw extruder[3]. During the study, recycled Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate), R-PET, was mixed with organically modified quaternary alkyl ammonium montmorillonite in the contents of 1,2, and 5 weight %. Three types of clays were evaluated during the studies. For comparison, 2 weight % clay containing samples were prepared with three different clay types, Cloisite 15A, 25A, 30B and the electrical properties of the resultant nanocomposites were experimentally tested.

Keywords: Metro Solid Waste (MSW), Nanocomposites, Polymer Electronics, Recycled PET, Dielectric material.