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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON USING PLASTIC WASTE IN

MANUFACTURING OF PAVER BLOCKS
Anusuri Uma Maheswari*1, L. Srinuswamy *2, K. Mohan*3, D. Murthy*4,
V. Vasudeva Rao*5
*1Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Chaitanya Engineering College,
kommadi, Andhra Pradesh, India.
*2,3,4,5 U.G. Students, Department of Civil Engineering, Chaitanya Engineering College, kommadi,
Andhra Pradesh, India.
ABSTRACT
Due to vast population increase, the use of plastic are in day by day is more. Several researches worked on
carrying waste plastic application in construction industry. At present nearly lakhs of tons of waste
plastic is produced in India every year .So the aim of this project is to replace cement with waste plastic in
paver block and to reduce the cost of paver block in compared to that of conventional concrete paver
block. In this project we have used waste plastic in different proportions with sand. The paver bocks were
prepared and tested and the results were discussed elaborately.
KEYWORDS: Acid Resistance Test, Compressive Strength, Fire Resistance Test, Paver block, Plastic waste.

I. INTRODUCTION
Paver blocks are used in very excess in the construction field because it’s gives an aesthetically pleasing
look, cost effective and required very less safeguarding. Mostly the paver blocks are manufactured by the
use of two main components fine aggregate (sand) and cement, these materials are naturally and easily
available but have very high cost. Also cement produce the CO2 emission in very huge amount by addition
of water into it, which is being one of the reason for the global warming. So, we are making an attempt
towards the safety of environment and to make the environment pollution free. That’s the reason we are
adding waste plastic in place of the cement. As we know the waste plastic is the major problem now-a-
days for polluting the land and river.
In year 2019 the waste plastic produce worldwide is about 400 million tons, in which only 9% is
consumed for recycled, the report is of April,2019 India itself produce 5.6 million tons of waste plastic till
April 2019. So, it is very big problem of the disposal of the waste plastic. That’s why we are using this
waste plastic in the manufacturing of the paver blocks We replaced the cement with waste plastic and
performed various test on the paver block manufacture with the waste plastic like, compressive strength
test, fire resistance test, hardness test, acid resistance test etc. with different proportions.
II. METHODOLOGY
a) Properties of Materials:
1. Waste Plastic:
Plastic waste used in this project for making paver block was collected from the nearby locality. It
includes plastic bottles. Plastics are commonly used substances which play an important role in almost
every aspect of our lives. The widespread generation of plastics waste needs proper end-of-life
management. The highest amount of plastics is found in containers and packaging’s (i.e. bottles,
packaging, cups etc.).
2. Fine Aggregate (Sand):
Sand is the most common and very important in all construction work. Natural river sand is used as fine
aggregate. The properties of sand were determined by in accordance with the code IS: 2386 (Part-1),
(passing from 600 microns retain on 300 microns).

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b) Mix Proportions:
Table-1: Mix Proportions of Plastic and Sand
Trial Mix
Mix Ratio Plastic (Kg) Fine Aggregate (Kg)
Designation

Paver block-1 1:1 2.45 2.45

Paver block-2 2:1 3.26 1.63

Paver block-3 3:1 3.67 1.22

Paver block-4 4:1 3.92 0.98

c) Preparation of Paver Block Specimens:

For block type – 1, firstly we weighed waste plastic, sand according to mix proportion. For one block we
took 1 part of the waste plastic and one part sand. After this, we melt the waste plastic in the barrel and
after melting of waste plastic, we added the sand material in the melted plastic. So, we get the desired mix
proportion of paste. Then, we poured plastic paste it into the Mould specimen. After that we put out the
block from the mould.

Fig-1: Manufacturing of Paver Block.

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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The results of water absorption, compressive strength, acid resistance and fire resistance tests were
tabulated below.
Table-2: Water Absorption of Different Proportions of Paver Blocks

Specimen Dry Weight Wet Weight Water

of Paver of Paver Absorption
Block Block (%)

P.B - 1 4.910 4.934 0.486

P.B – 2 5.750 5.784 0.587

P.B – 3 5.274 5.306 0.603

P.B – 4 5.264 5.346 1.533

Table-3: Compressive Strength of Different Proportions of Paver Blocks

Specimen 3 days strength 7 days strength 28 days strength

N/mm2 N/mm2 N/mm2

P.B - 1 5.44 10.88 16.33

P.B – 2 5.69 11.39 17.09

P.B – 3 4.78 9.58 14.37

P.B – 4 4.13 8.21 12.33

Compressive Strength of Different Proportions Plastic Paver

Blocks
Compressive Strength (N/mm2)

20 17.09
16.33
14.37
15 12.33 3 days
10.88 11.39
9.58 7 days
10 8.21
5.44 5.69 28 days
4.78 4.13
5

0
P.B-1 P.B-2 P.B-3 P.B-4
Plastic Paver Block Specimens

Fig-2: Compressive Strength of Paver Block.

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Table-4: Fire Resistance of Different Proportions of Paver Blocks

Specimen No. Mix ratio Temperature in 0C Changes

P.B-1 1:1 50 No change

75 No change

100 Slightly melt

P.B-2 2:1 50 No change

75 No change

100 Slightly melt

P.B-3 3:1 50 No change

75 No change

100 Slightly melt

P.B-4 4:1 50 No change

75 No change

100 Slightly melt

Table-5: Fire Resistance of Different Proportions of Paver Blocks

Specimen Mix Ratio Effect of H2 SO4

P.B - 1 1:1 Not affected

P.B – 2 2:1 Not affected

P.B – 3 3:1 Slightly affected

P.B – 4 4:1 Slightly affected

IV. CONCLUSION
a) The water absorption of plastic paver block is slightly increasing upto 3:1 ratio there after the water
absorption increases abruptly more.
b) As the age of paver block increases the Compressive strength of block increases.
c) As percentage of plastic in paver block increases the compressive strength value increases upto 3:1
ratio only there after the value decreases.
d) Plastic Paver can withstand temperature upto 75 0C, without any change at 100 0C , the plastic paver
block starts melting slightly.
e) The plastic paver block is not affected to acid attack upto 2:1 ratio.
f) The plastic paver block has more advantageous than concrete paver block such as cost efficiency,
reducing problem of plastic waste disposal.
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