• Mohamed Ilyas Anjum
• Sagar Gowda B
• Praveen H G
• Suman C N
• Vishwanatha N Y

Plastic has become one of the vastly used materials for various applications all over the world because it is flexible, robust, rigid and non bio degradable. Due to its vast use, its disposal thereafter has created challenges across the world. It threatens the environment and significantly contributes to the climate change phenomenon. Many methods and techniques have been and are being explored and implemented for its disposal. These techniques revolve around recycling or re use. Most researchers find that re use is a better approach as it does not require additional energy and is cheaper. As such, the waste plastic bottles are being re used in a variety of applications, especially building construction. In this study, the waste plastic bottles awaiting disposal, were filled with another waste material namely mortar powder collected from a building demolition site and embedded into conventional solid blocks in variable numbers and positions to determine its influence on the compressive strength of the block. The results have shown that these two waste materials when reused together can result in higher compressive strength besides giving a direction for their disposal. Ultimately, this leads to improvement in the environment.

Waste plastics bottles, Mortar powder, number, position, solid blocks, compressive strength

"Waste Plastic and Mortar in Solid Blocks ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no.906-910, February-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002343.pdf

"Waste Plastic and Mortar in Solid Blocks ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 2, page no. pp906-910, February-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2002343.pdf