• Arvind Singhal
• Dr. Omprakash Netula

Plastic waste is a non-biodegradable waste which cannot decompose and this creates water, land pollution and air pollution. Also, while we burn the plastic waste in Dumping Ground, the percentage of plastic waste is increasing rapidly. It is estimated that the plastic waste will double after a decade as we use hundreds grades of plastic in our daily life. We can recycle, reuse the plastic waste. As a civil engineer we have to innovate something new related to this, which is a boon for civil engineering. So, here we try to do something innovative as PLASTIC SAND BRICKS/ TILES. Basically in bricks and tiles, we used earth based clay. Due to excessive use of the clay, it shows the result of resources depletion and environmental degradation. In plastic waste we consider Drinking Water Bottles (polyethylene terephthalate), Carry Bags, Bottles Caps, house hold Articles (High Density Polyethylene), Milk Pouches, Sacks, Carry Bags, Bin Linings, Cosmetics and Detergent Bottles (Low Density Polyethylene), Bottle Caps and Closures, Wrappers of Detergents, Biscuit (Poly Propylene), Electricals Fittings, Handles and Knobs (Urea Formaldehyde), Casting, Bonding Fibers (Polyester resin) etc. In this, we get to crush the plastic waste into fine particles and heated on a furnace (Bhatti) . We use stone dust as fine aggregates (size below than 4.75mm),heated on a furnace (Bhatti). Now, we mix heated plastic waste and heated stone dust and pour into mould and form bricks and tiles. We observed that the characteristics of bricks and tiles is far much better than normal bricks and tiles as minimum water absorption, highly compressive strength, smooth surface, unbreakable, less weight etc.

Plastic Waste, Plastic Sand, Plactic Bricks, Mix, Caps.

"UTILIZATION OF PLASTIC WASTE IN MANUFACTURING OF PLASTIC SAND BRICKS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.300-303, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006052.pdf

"UTILIZATION OF PLASTIC WASTE IN MANUFACTURING OF PLASTIC SAND BRICKS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp300-303, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRC006052.pdf