An experimental study of plastic bricks made from waste plastics

Nayak, Sangita and Senapati, Prabhudatta and Mohanty, Suvashree and Nayak, Shidhi Swarupa (2025) An experimental study of plastic bricks made from waste plastics. World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 15 (1). pp. 973-978. ISSN 2582-8266

The Plastic waste is the hazardous problem in today’s world. This is most dangerous problem in front of humanity. The most hazardous type of wastes are HDPE and PTE and the plastic below 50 micron is also causing a serious problem. These plastic mixed in the soil, is directly effects on fertility of soil. Nowadays, the large amount of plastic is deposited into sea. This plastic waste gives hazardous effect on the life and quality of sea water also polluted by this plastic. So, we try to finding an efficient way to solve this problem of plastic wastes. So, we added these plastic wastes into the bricks and create the bricks by using plastic wastes. It is most economical solution present in the construction industry and it is also economical and environment friendly solution of the plastic wastes. This study summaries the work done by authors to use plastic as construction material in bricks. Various authors performed comparative study with brick made up of other materials by using various testing method such as Scratch test, apparent porosity, water absorption, apparent porosity test, soundness test, efflorescence test and analyzed that the further research on this field can enrich the strength, quality and durability of the masonry bricks. These bricks absorb very less water as compared to conventional bricks that is also very significant with the view of environmental sustainability. The different types of plastic percentages we used in this experiment were 30%, 35%,40%,45% and 50% respectively with the river sand. The tests that were performed on these bricks were Compression test and Hardness Test and Other tests that were performed on normal bricks. These bricks are light in weight and economical in budget as we are using plastic waste. This paper reviews the reduction of plastic disposal and the results are clearly shows that some part of plastics can be definitely used in the production of bricks.