Abstract

Our project is mainly about one kind of a recyclable building made out of bricks composed of

naturally occurring sand and polyethylene plastic. Our aim is to use the different methods and

knowledge acquired in Materials Science class to perform an environment friendly and efficient

composed material in these buildings. Due to the large amount of plastic waste and the difficult

conditions it requires to recycle it, a new method is found to make use of it without going

through the recycling process. The project in question is treating this problem by taking

polyethylene plastic from these wasted objects (water bottles, plastic cups, plastic bags…). As

learned in Materials class, the mixture of two given materials should be feasible to the usage.

Since the objective is a recyclable building with almost the same conditions as a standard

building, the sand is to be taken from rivers because of its smoothness and adaptability to our end

product. The bricks will go through a process and different tests afterwards (hardness, impact,

strength, water absorption…). The specific properties of the two materials used will be provided

later.

Key words: Polyethylene Plastic, River Sand, Environment, bricks

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