Concrete Products with Waste's Plastic Material (Bottle, Glass, Plate)

Abstract

Plastic material is not easily biodegradable even after a long period, in fact a wide variety of waste materials can be utilized as inert in matrix cement. In this paper we have focused the attention on the use of plastic material particles incorporated as aggregate in concrete and we have evaluated the chemical, physical and mechanical properties

Use of waste plastic in concrete mixture as aggregate replacement

“…All of the compressive strength values are higher than the minimum compressive strength required for structural concrete which is 17.24 MPa. The results are in a good agreement with the findings of Marzouk et al (2007) and Pezzi et al (2006) which demonstrated that once the sand volume substituted with aggregates increased, the compressive strength of composites decreased slightly in comparison with the reference mortar. …”

“…Jo et al (2006) investigated the mechanical properties such as compressive strength and flexural strength of polymer concrete using an unsaturated polyester resin based on recycled PET, which contributes to reducing the cost of the material and saving energy. Pezzi et al (2006) used plastic material particles incorporated as aggregate in concrete and evaluated the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties. The results proved that the addition of polymeric materials in fractions 610% in volume inside of a cement matrix does not imply a significant variation of the concrete mechanical features.…”

Recycling of PET bottles as fine aggregate in concrete

“…As a confirmation, the formation of a dense interface has been already observed through the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) by different authors (Choi et al, 2005;Pezzi et al, 2006). Moreover, Pezzi et al (2006) showed that, when the percentage of PET in the mixtures increases, the bond between hydrated cement and PET becomes very weak. However, in that case the dimension of the PET particles was considerably large, i.e.…”

“…Pezzi et al (2006) incorporated WPET particles as aggregate in concrete and evaluated physical and mechanical properties on the resulted mixtures. The addition of WPET (balls with diameter ranging from 15 to 25 mm) in fractions up to 10% by volume of aggregate of total mixture did not cause significant variation in compressive strength at low w/c ratios.…”

Sustainable Solid Waste Recycling

“…The results show that the addition of polymeric material in a fraction less than 10% in the volume of cement matrix does not imply a significant variation in the mechanical properties of cement. However, the density and compression strength of cement decreased when the percentage of polyethylene aggregate exceeds 50% by volume as well as when the weight of normal concrete had been reduced [13][14][15][16][17][18].…”