Plastic Waste Management in Construction: Exploring the Potential of Plastic Bricks (original) (raw)

A Review of Plastic Bricks as a Construction Material

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

Plastic brick is the form of brick manufactured from the combination of non-recyclable waste plastic with other constituents (sand, aggregate, cement, water, stone dust, fly ash, etc.) This study aimed to examine the research findings on transforming waste plastic into bricks that might be used to replace traditional bricks. Different journal articles were reviewed entitled the transformation of waste plastic into bricks to replace traditional clay bricks. Different open-access journal articles were searched to fit the topic of this study. The results indicate that the concrete blocks made with plastic bottles have 57% higher compressive strength and which was cited seventy-nine times by the other researchers (n = 79) "Use of recycled plastic water bottles in concrete blocks". The results further show that the compressive strength and other properties can be increased significantly when plastic is used as a binder with sand. But when it is used as filler, it produces competitive strength as ordinary bricks and can be used without any restrictions or hesitation. The main reflection of this review is to conduct primary research on a large scale to find an innovative model to transform waste plastic into environmentally friendly bricks. The implication of this study would be beneficial to students, future researchers, the Engineering Department of Oxford College of Engineering and Management, Gaindakot 2 in Nawalparasi district and young academicians.

Utilization of Plastic Waste Material in Masonry Bricks Production Towards Strength, Durability and Environmental Sustainability

Journal of Sustainable Architecture and Civil Engineering

The level of generated plastic waste has awash over a billion metric tonnes of this waste into our environment. If an effective long-lasting solution to this impending disaster is not provided through recycling, reengineering, and conversion of this waste to resourceful materials. Then sustainability and conservation of natural non-replenishable materials will be severely threatened. The aims to avert the impending consequences of this disaster and conserve natural materials have given rise to a sustainable future in the production of low carbon embedded construction materials. Under these circumstances, this study, therefore, presents the strengths and durability of waste plastic bricks (WPB) produced from blending scrap PET plastics and foundry sand. The WPB masonry bricks were produced using ratios of 10:90, 20: 80, and 30: 70 to the combined dry mass of PET and sand. Series of compressive strength tests, modulus of rupture (MOR) tests, apparent porosity tests, water absorption t...

Effectiveness of waste plastic in the building of bricks

2021

Abstract: Plastics are critical resources in the overall economics, and recycling the product after the end of its useful life with meaningful and specific economic value creation minimizes environmental damage. This is the key to achieving sustainable and balanced management of our lifestyle. A substantial proportion of research has examined indoctrinating waste plastics in concrete and reported encouraging results with added benefits. The present study critically reviews some of these findings and gleans some valuable common trends in the properties reported in these studies. The theories also present innovative work on bricks made of non-recyclable waste thermoplastic granules composed of 0 to 20% by weight, 4kg of fly ash, cement, and sand making up the remainder. The bricks were cured underwater for 28 days and baked at temperatures ranging from 90 C to 110 C for 2 hours. These bricks' key characteristics are lightweight, porous, low thermal conductivity, and commendable co...

MODELLING OF PLASTIC WASTE AS AN ALTERNATIVE BUILDING MATERIAL IN THE FORM OF BRICKS

The existence of plastic waste is a global issue since plastic wastes are difficult to destroy and the recycling process causes air pollution and wastes energy. Building materials in the form of bricks produced from plastic waste can decrease wastes and can be used in building constructions. This plastic bricks met the requirement of light load-bearing walls, with a mass of 160g per brick that can withstand a capacity of 32 kN each.

An experimental study on the utilization of plastic waste for the manufacturing of bricks

IRJET, 2022

Plastic is very hazardous in today's world. This is the most dangerous problem that humanity faces nowadays. When it burned it releases toxic gases like furans, dioxins, and mercury. The plastic, which is lower than 75 m, causes serious issues for human beings as well as the ecosystem. This experiment was performed on the manufacturing of bricks using plastic waste. The brick is manufactured by the process of melting it with river sand at 110°-130°C. In this experiment, we have used different types of sand to plastic ratios. The different types of plastic percentages we used in this experiment were 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, and 50%, respectively, with the river sand. The tests that were performed on these bricks were compression tests, absorption tests, and other tests that were performed on normal bricks. These bricks are light in weight and economical in budget as we are using plastic waste.

USE OF WASTE PLASTIC IN MANUFACTURING OF BRICKS

use of waste plastic in manufacturing of bricks, 2020

Plastic pollution can affect unfavorably water ways and oceans and lands. The composition of plastic is of major harmful and toxic pollutants. Potentially it may be very harmful to environment like air, water and land pollutions. It has been reported that each year 20 million tons of plastic end up in the ocean and other water bodies. 2-2.5 trillion plastic particles which is weighing about 270,000 tons are currently floating in the world water bodies. Moisture which penetrates to the building by its wall, roofs and floors from ground water table or by other sources like rain, sanitary leakages etc is called dampness. Only the building its self is not get effected by the dampness but it is also harmful for its inhabitants. It is therefore necessary to make the building damp proof and it can be made by using proper damp proof materials. Dampness can cause corrosion of metals, dry root to the wooden portion, paints to get blistered, peeling off or removal of plaster, floor up the buildings too remains ugly. To overcome the pollution, the waste plastic bottles should be utilized and to reduce dampness. Plastic clay brick should be manufactured. For this purpose, we manufactured plastic clay brick which fulfils the requirements we used melted plastic bottles with clay. The percentage of plastic was changed in different trials. We achieved the desired strength on 30% plastic and 70% clay. All tests were performed according to IS standard. The results obtained show high strength and less absorption.

Performance Analysis of Plastic Bricks for Structural Applications: A Combined Experimental and Software-based Investigation

IRJET, 2023

The intensifying generation of plastic waste presents a significant environmental challenge worldwide. Plastic waste, due to its non-biodegradable nature, contributes to land and water pollution, requiring the exploration of sustainable waste management solutions. Recycling plastic waste into building materials, such as bricks, offers a potential solution to mitigate environmental impacts. This research aimed to investigate the integration of plastic waste into building materials through a comprehensive study using experimental testing, software analysis, and structural design. The study focused on two main objectives: performing modeling and stress analysis of plain plastic bricks using ANSYS software and designing a G+2 room model using ETAB software for components like slabs, beams, and columns. The research addressed the research gap in the integration of experimental data, stress values, and modeling techniques for optimizing building structures. The results showed that the experimental values obtained from compression testing were generally higher than those from ANSYS software, with ANSYS providing closer approximations for certain plastic types. The ETAB analysis demonstrated that the HDPE model exhibited lower bending moments and axial loads compared to the concrete model, suggesting superior mechanical properties and load-carrying capacity. This research contributes to the understanding of the behavior and performance of plastic bricks in structural applications, enabling the development of sustainable and efficient building designs that incorporate plastic waste materials. The findings emphasize the importance of considering physical conditions during testing and highlight the accuracy and utility of ANSYS and ETAB software in structural analysis and design optimization. Future research can build upon these findings to establish design guidelines and further optimize modeling techniques in this field.

Suitability and Utilization Study on Waste Plastic Brick as Alternative Construction Material

2021

Construction industry is gradually increasing through the whole of the world and it is consuming natural resource raw materials for construction materials. Traditional way of producing clay brick without giving care for natural resource brought deficiency of natural resource. Now the days, plastics waste is the big challenge of the world on Environmental impacts and Alternative using High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic waste Brick for construction material is preventing environmental impact of plastic and in other hand saving natural resources clay soil. High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic waste was collected from different sites it was thrown and before producing waste plastic Brick High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) is cleaned, and the size is minimized as it was suitable for plastic waste Brick. After that Plastic waste Bricks were produced for different Tests. five sample of plastic waste Bricks were produced for compressive strength test. Mean Compressive strength of Pl...

Utilization of Plastic Waste for Making Plastics Bricks

International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2023

Plastic waste is a non-biodegradable waste which takes thousands years to decompose and it becomes a global concern. If we throw plastic waste on the ground it causes soil pollution when its burn it causes air pollution and when we threw in the water bodies it causes water pollution, which effects the aquatic plants and animals. The percentage of the plastic waste is increasing rapidly. And the recycle of plastic waste percentage is so less, which in return it causes a major impact to the global warming. As a Civil Engineer we have to innovate something new which will not cause much harmful to our environment. So here we try to do something innovative a plastic bricks. It is most economical solution present in the construction industry and it also environment friendly solution of plastic waste. We observe that a characteristic of plastic bricks is far much better than normal bricks.

Manufacturing of Brick by Waste Plastic

International Journal of Engineering Research in Mechanical and Civil Engineering (IJERMCE)

Nowadays due to development and urbanization, plastic becomes a part of our daily life. The only flaw is it is non-biodegradable and it takes thousands of years to breakdown or to decompose. This study elaborates the work done by the writer to use plastic as a construction material to replace the clay brick as well as to find a way to effectively utilize the waste plastic. Plastic waste has recyclable characteristics that may be used to recycle it and create a new product that has lesser environmental effect. One way to recycle plastic trash is to make plastic bricks by combining plastic with sand at a particular temperature and using them to replace regular clay bricks. Various authors conducted a comparison study with masonry bricks made of other materials using various testing methods such as scratch testing, water absorption test, porosity testing, soundness testing, scratch testing, efflorescence testing, and concluded that more research in this field could improve the durabili...