UTILIZATION OF WASTE PLASTIC IN PAVER BLOCKS

Civil Engineering

Plastic is a non- biodegradable material. The quantity of plastic waste in municipal solid waste is expanding rapidly day by day. Plastic is made from hydrocarbons found in different sources like oil, coal and some other minerals. At the time of need, plastic is found to be very useful but after its use, it is simply thrown away, creating all kinds of hazards. Plastic is of the many different types such as High Density Poly-ethylene (HDPE), Low density poly-ethylene (LDPE), HD, etc. Hence, these waste plastics is to be effectively utilised in making paver blocks. low density polyethylene are clean added with the sand and aggregate at various percentages to obtain high strength bricks that possess thermal and sound insulation properties to handle pollution and to reduce the overall cost of construction, this is one of the best ways to avoid the accumulation of plastic waste which is an on-degradable pollutant. The aim of this project is to replace the bonding of given by cement in paver blocks with the melted plastic waste .Around 5.6 million tonnes of plastic waste is generated in the country per annum. The degradation of plastic is very long process, it may take thousands of years. Hence, project is helpful in reducing the plastic waste .In this project, we have used plastic waste in different ratio with fine and coarse aggregate. The paver blocks were prepared and tested .The water absorption capacity of plastic paver block is less. The results showed more strength as compared to paver blocks.

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