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Retraction

RETRACTED: Alrshoudi et al. Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871

by
Fahed Alrshoudi
1,*,
Hossein Mohammadhosseini
2,*,
Mahmood Md. Tahir
2,
Rayed Alyousef
3,
Hussam Alghamdi
1,
Yousef R. Alharbi
1 and
Abdulaziz Alsaif
1
1
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh 12372, Saudi Arabia
2
Institute for Smart Infrastructure and Innovative Construction (ISIIC), School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor 81310, Malaysia
3
Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Alkharj 11942, Saudi Arabia
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2025, 17(9), 3975; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093975
Submission received: 26 March 2025 / Accepted: 26 March 2025 / Published: 28 April 2025
Our journal, Sustainability, retracts the article “Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding the reliability of the figures presented in this article [1].
Adhering to our complaint procedure, an investigation was conducted by the Editorial Office and Editorial Board that confirmed a high level of similarity between Figure 6 in this paper [1] and Figure 14 in a previously published article [2] and between Figure 8 and Figure 11 and Figure 7 in previously published articles [2,3], presenting different experimental conditions. Although the authors cooperated with the Editorial Office during the investigation, they were unable to satisfactorily explain the overlap between the figures nor provide appropriate raw materials for an Editorial Board Evaluation. Consequently, the Editorial Board has lost confidence in the reliability of the findings and decided to retract this publication [1], as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of Sustainability.
The authors did not provide a comment on this decision.

References

  1. Alrshoudi, F.; Mohammadhosseini, H.; Md. Tahir, M.; Alyousef, R.; Alghamdi, H.; Alharbi, Y.R.; Alsaif, A. RETRACTED: Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  2. Mohammadhosseini, H.; Alyousef, R.; Md. Tahir, M. Towards Sustainable Concrete Composites through Waste Valorisation of Plastic Food Trays as Low-Cost Fibrous Materials. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2073. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
  3. Mohammadhosseini, H.; Awal, A.S.M.A.; Yatim, J.B.M. The impact resistance and mechanical properties of concrete reinforced with waste polypropylene carpet fibres. Constr. Build. Mater. 2017, 143, 147–157. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef]
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Alrshoudi, F.; Mohammadhosseini, H.; Tahir, M.M.; Alyousef, R.; Alghamdi, H.; Alharbi, Y.R.; Alsaif, A. RETRACTED: Alrshoudi et al. Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871. Sustainability 2025, 17, 3975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093975

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Alrshoudi F, Mohammadhosseini H, Tahir MM, Alyousef R, Alghamdi H, Alharbi YR, Alsaif A. RETRACTED: Alrshoudi et al. Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871. Sustainability. 2025; 17(9):3975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093975

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Alrshoudi, Fahed, Hossein Mohammadhosseini, Mahmood Md. Tahir, Rayed Alyousef, Hussam Alghamdi, Yousef R. Alharbi, and Abdulaziz Alsaif. 2025. "RETRACTED: Alrshoudi et al. Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871" Sustainability 17, no. 9: 3975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093975

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Alrshoudi, F., Mohammadhosseini, H., Tahir, M. M., Alyousef, R., Alghamdi, H., Alharbi, Y. R., & Alsaif, A. (2025). RETRACTED: Alrshoudi et al. Sustainable Use of Waste Polypropylene Fibers and Palm Oil Fuel Ash in the Production of Novel Prepacked Aggregate Fiber-Reinforced Concrete. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4871. Sustainability, 17(9), 3975. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093975

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