Application of Plastic Bottle Brick In Green Building Construction

Abstract

In building construction brick is one of the major ingredients in the material used for construction. In the
process of brick making, it has to be burn in kiln which introduced to evolve the CO2 gas in major quantity. This CO2 gas
pollutes the environment. So the solution on this disadvantage of the burnt clay bricks is replacing the bricks with
another material i.e. bricks made from waste plastic bottles. Today we need cost effective and environment friendly
material which not pollute the environment. Therefore We can use the waste plastic bottles for making an affordable
house. This project report consist of use of plastic waste bottle in construction as a brick which the bottles are filled with
mixture of sand and soil with proportion of 40%-60% in three layers and tamp each layer with tamping rod by 25 blows
and use as a brick in construction. Therefore, there were two types of experiments were used to evaluate the properties
plastic bottle filled with sand and soil which are Compression test, temperature test in indoor and outdoor and humidity.
The compression test conducts on 1000 ml, 600ml and 300 ml bottle. As a result all the bottles are achieving the strength
over the permissible limit required for burn clay brick. The comparison of indoor and outdoor wall temperature, air
Humidity between the plastic bottle green house and normal brick house has indicate that plastic bottle has recorded
highest reading for outdoor wall temperature with 36°C and indoor temperature is 27°C . From these result it can be
concluded that plastic bottle house have a potential to us this material in construction. As per the study on PET plastic
bottle and its lifespan and various ratios of mixes use for construction is to be carried out.