USE OF PET BOTTLE AND BLAST FURNACE SLAG AS CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL

CIVIL ENGINEERING

Our project proposes the use of waste plastic PET bottles as construction entity to standardised bricks. As plastics are non biodegradable its disposal has always been a problem. Waste plastic bottles are major cause of solid waste disposal. Polyethylene tetra phthalate is commonly used for carbonated beverage and water bottles. This is an environmental issue as waste plastic bottles are difficult to biodegrade and involves processes either to recycle or reuse. Today the construction industry is in need of finding cost effective materials for increasing the strength of structures. This project deals with the possibility of using waste PET bottles as a partial replacement. So, to decrease the cost of building materials here is a plan to build a house with PET bottle and binding material blast furnace slag .Bottle wall construction also avoids emission of gases like CO, CO2, SO2, NO, HCN as happened in manufacturing of bricks. In our project, we have constructed structure using bottle wall of quantity ¬¬¬¬¬-(1.26x0.9x1.5) is 1.7cub.m.Cost and strength comparison is done for traditional brick structure and PET bottle structure, it is found that cost is comparatively less and strength is comparatively more than traditional wall. Also study of Embodied energy is done.

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