Plastic Waste Management with Expanded Polystyrene Beads
Modi Musalaiah1, T. Phani Madhavi2
1Modi Musalaiah, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, MVR College of Engineering and Technology, (A. P), India.
2T. Phani Madhavi, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Bapatla Engineering College, Bapatla (A. P), India.
Manuscript received on 30 March 2022 | Revised Manuscript received on 06 April 2022 | Manuscript Accepted on 15 November 2022 | Manuscript published on 30 November 2022 | PP: 1-3 | Volume-2 Issue-2, November 2022 | Retrieval Number: 100.1/ijee.C1830051322 | DOI: 10.54105/ijee.C1830.111422
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Abstract: Plastic waste is the one of the serious environmental issue due to its non-biodegradability nature. The disposing of plastic waste and plastic waste management becomes a major task in developing countries like India due to rapid growth of population and industrialization. Plastic stands in the top most place among variety of solid waste materials, and causes heavy environmental hazards which will affect the future generations and peers. The present study was focused to investigate and understand the attributes of concrete which is made of partial replacement of coarse aggregate with Expanded Polystyrene Beads using M20 mix design. Concrete cubes were casted taking 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of Expanded Polystyrene beads as partial replacement of coarse aggregate and tested for 7days, 14days and 28days of compressive strength of concrete.
Keywords: Waste Management, Plastic Waste, Expanded Polystyrene Beads(EPB)
Article of the Scope: Environmental Engineering