Use of Recycled Plastic Water Bottles in Concrete Blocks

Safinia, Sina; Al-Kalbani, Amani

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.612

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“…The compression strength of the PET bottles brick was nearly equal to standard brick hence ideal to be used for both internal partitions and external walling in frame structures. Safinia and Alkalbani (2016) [46] performed a study by using plastic waste bottles in concrete blocks with the prime aim of examining the possibility of utilizing the plastic waste bottles as a substitute in concrete block production. Traditional hollow concrete blocks of size 200×200×400 mm were obtained from market and tested for compressive strength.…”

Section: Studies On Plastic Waste Bottles Use In Constructionmentioning

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Exploration of Waste Plastic Bottles Use in Construction

Dadzie

Kaliluthin

Kumar³

2020

Civ Eng J

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The vision of this study is geared towards the exploitation of waste plastic bottle use in construction. This review paper is centers on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to help solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials. In Ghana, plastic wastes are discarded randomly after usage, hence scatter around in cities, choking drains, and end up threatening our ecosystem. These predominant effects from the plastic wastes have necessitated the need for countries precisely developing countries including Ghana to seek more sustainable methods to reduce the drastic amount of plastic wastes in the environment. In view of the above, this paper focused on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials (stones and sand) are very much critical. In the reviews, an effort has been made to utilize the waster plastic bottles in construction by filling the bottles with soil, sand, solid waste materials as brick or block bounded with mortar as a masonry wall or the filled bottles are used as a substitute for the production of the masonry unit production. In summary, it was concluded based on varying test result that: (1) Plastic waste bottles are cheaper to acquire than most conventional construction materials and as such concrete or brick containing any amount of plastic bottle is noted to reduce the total quantities of conventional materials required, thereby reducing the cost as well. (2) The use of plastic waste bottles in construction contributes to environmental friendliness and energy savings since buildings with walls constructed of plastic bottles maintains room temperatures and contribute to energy saving and the cost of providing an artificial thermal control system. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2020-03091616 Full Text: PDF

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Section: Studies On Plastic Waste Bottles Use In Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploration of Waste Plastic Bottles Use in Construction

Dadzie

Kaliluthin

Kumar³

2020

Civ Eng J

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“…86,87 Besides this ecological aspect, the addition of polymeric residues can improve concrete properties, such as improvement of tensile strength and chemical resistance, reduction of drying shrinkage, and also the possibility to decrease raw material costs. 87,88 Manufacturing thermoplastic woods, which are commonly referred to in the scientific literature by wood/plastic composites (WPCs), are composites obtained basically through the mechanical recycling of thermoplastic waste and residues from the wood processing industries, such as sandpaper and sawdust. 89 This recycling method for thermoplastic polymer waste is an alternative way to circumvent problems regarding loss of mechanical properties, which occurs intrinsically along the mechanical recycling steps of the plastic residue.…”

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Current options for characterizing, sorting, and recycling polymeric waste

Silva

Wiebeck

2020

Progress in Rubber, Plastics and Recycling Technology

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Several researches and technologies on polymer recycling have been driven and justified by the uncontrolled and crescent polymer waste generation in the world. Herein, a critical and concise review on the recent and well-established recycling practices for polymer waste is presented, taking into account not only thermoplastics (or plastics) but also thermosets and elastomers. Moreover, sorting and characterization techniques for polymer waste recycling are detailed and their importance is discussed. An in-depth analysis of the literature indicated that novel and advanced recycling methods for polymeric waste (PW) present difficulties to be applied in the industrial sector, mainly the scientific innovations in the chemical recycling area. In the current scenario, new challenges for the recycling sector are linked to highly contaminated PW from electrical, electronic, and medical products.

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“…As the environmental impact of concrete production and its use have become apparent, research trends are increasingly focusing on producing eco-efficient concrete. From a materials approach, studies have been conducted with the aim of partly substituting the main concrete block materials with other materials, including waste material (Liang & Nusryamsi, 2017;Safinia & Alkalbani, 2016;Winarno & Pujantara, 2015). Nevertheless, most of these prototype-scale studies have focused only on the relationship between various mix ratios and conducting a compressive strength analysis of concrete blocks, without conducting any further investigations into the correlation between findings and their environmental impacts.…”

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Increasing Eco-Performance of Concrete Blocks through Computational Design Form Optimization

Pradipto

Afif

2019

JDBE

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This paper presents creative geometry research focusing on computational design exploration to improve the eco-performance of concrete blocks used as a building material. To provide a positive ecoperformance, an optimized concrete block was designed to be more efficient than a conventional concrete block with respect to the materials used and the space occupied during storage and transport. The results prove that the form is cost-effective and that the environmental impact caused by associated production and distribution processes would be comparatively reduced. Computational research based on parametric design thinking enabled the relationship between form properties as selected design parameters to be evaluated, with the aim of ensuring that efficiency does not compromise technical requirements and that the overall functional role of the concrete block is appropriate when used as a constituent material in nonstructural wall construction. Volumetric-based measurements were employed using Rhinoceros modeling software with a Grasshopper plug-in to assess the eco-performance of the concrete block based on selected indicators. The results show that the folded S-shape concrete block with a width of 40 mm consumes only 43% of the main material and 14% of the auxiliary material relative to a conventional concrete block with a width of 100 mm. When arranged horizontally, a standard container can hold 60% more of the optimized concrete block units compared to conventional ones. Additional findings were also made that suggest future research potential, including use of the concrete blocks as building elements in passive design strategies.

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Use of Recycled Plastic Water Bottles in Concrete Blocks

Cited by 60 publications

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Exploration of Waste Plastic Bottles Use in Construction

Exploration of Waste Plastic Bottles Use in Construction

Current options for characterizing, sorting, and recycling polymeric waste

Increasing Eco-Performance of Concrete Blocks through Computational Design Form Optimization

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