Abstract
Plastic trash is a global environmental problem. Recycling and creating commercial products from waste plastics are the best solutions to mitigate environmental degradation. This paper attempted to develop building bricks from waste plastics with the addition of M-sand. The research was carried out with three mix ratios 1:3, 1:4, and 1:5. Here, the first part of the ratio represents shredded waste LDPE plastics, and the second part of the ratio represents the M-sand. The shredded waste plastics were kept in a pan and heated, and the M-sand was added when the plastics in the pan became semi-solid. Then the M-sand was thoroughly mixed with semi-solid plastics and kept in the standard size brick mold for manufacturing building bricks. From the research, it could be observed that the waste plastics could be converted into bricks. The mechanical characteristics of developed plastic bricks were examined experimentally. The characteristics of plastic bricks with a mix ratio of 1:4 were observed to be higher than the standard first-class red clay bricks.
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