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For developing countries like Pakistan, waste disposal and management is one of the important issues whichneed to be addressed urgently. Today, in Pakistan a large quantity of waste accumulated in cities and towns. This is a bigchallenge for the government to safely dispose-off these waste so that to provide a good and healthy environment.Plastics are stable material and are not biodegradable material. Their open disposal creates problems in surroundingenvironment. In this scenario research studies are going on all over the world for the effective use of plastic waste as anaddition and partial replacement of coarse aggregates in plain concrete and reinforced concrete as well for manyreasons [1, 2]. This research study will help in contributing the effective utilization of plastic waste in RC concretestructural members in order to minimise the environmental pollution. Three types of concrete are made with 0%, 5% &10% replacement of coarse aggregate with palletized coarse aggregate. The properties of materials were individuallyfound out in laboratory & compared with plastic aggregates. The mix proportion is prepared on the basis of theproperties of materials for concrete of 3000 psi compressive strength. The resulting reference concrete with all naturalaggregates is then compared coarse aggregate replaced concretes for compressive strength & tensile strength. It wasfound that the compressive strength & tensile strength are reduced but the concrete can be used at places of low strength.This research also gave the basic data for effective utilization of plastic aggregate in concrete with basic guidelines.

Sajid Imarn, Khan Shahzada, Muhammad umar, Wajid Ali, Tayyaba Bibi, “INVESTIGATION AND COMPARISON OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND NORMAL CONCRETE WITH WASTE PLASTIC AGGREGATE AND REPLACED COARSE AGGREGATE CONCRETE”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 4, pp. 1901-1905, April 2018.