Abstract:The wide variety of industrial and domestic applications of plastic products has fuelled a global trend in their use. The vast amount of plastic items that are discarded after use, on the other hand, pollutes the environment. In light of this, the current study investigated the use of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) as substitute for natural sand in concrete production. Locally sourced river sand was replaced with industrially ground waste PET in proportions of 4 to 20% at a step of 4% by the weight of natur… Show more
“…In order to protect concrete against biodeterioration, early initiatives by researchers and experts centred predominantly on the utilisation of biocides (i.e., pesticides or herbicides) commonly employed in the agricultural sector. A number of these chemicals were applied to the surface of the concrete or added to the concrete mixture as an admixture with the purpose of impeding the proliferation of microorganisms, thus conferring an antimicrobial property to the concrete [10][11][12][13].…”
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“…In order to protect concrete against biodeterioration, early initiatives by researchers and experts centred predominantly on the utilisation of biocides (i.e., pesticides or herbicides) commonly employed in the agricultural sector. A number of these chemicals were applied to the surface of the concrete or added to the concrete mixture as an admixture with the purpose of impeding the proliferation of microorganisms, thus conferring an antimicrobial property to the concrete [10][11][12][13].…”
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
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