IJSRD - International Journal for Scientific Research & Development| Vol. 5, Issue 03, 2017 | ISSN (online): 2321-0613 Studies on Eco-Friendly Soil and Sawdust Filled Plastic Bottles to Promote Sustainable Development for Partition Walls Pinkey Chaudhary1 Nancy Soni2 1M.Tech Student 2Assistant Professor 1,2Department of Civil Engineering 1,2RKDF College of Engineering, Bhopal, M.P., India Abstract— Alarming volume of plastic in urban waste is an the manufacture, improper use and disposal. Waste plastic indication of peak pollution that will lead to global warming bottles are used for filling up landfills which polluted to soil, to different elevations. Also the rapidly increasing rate of choking water bodies and causing serious environmental building materials is necessary to be controlled. Also the consequences. On the other hand, world human population materials used for construction are big contributors for the continually increase so needed more houses and land for environmental degradation that ultimately hinders construction. Now a day, it is difficult to make own house sustainable development. Here in this study we have found for poor people of the world by using costly construction an alternative of brick wall which is a soil filled plastic material. Can we use waste bottles for construction? Yes, it bottle block bonded together with cement sand mortar of is difficult to think of a bottle as a brick. But a mud-filled two different proportions. The arrangement of plastic bottles bottle is as strong as a brick and whatever you can do with a is tested both for parallel to the axis of loading and brick; you can do with a bottle, too. When the bottles are perpendicular to the load axis. The concept of plastic bottle filled with soil or sand they work as bricks and form a block can also be used for the load bearing walls, since the framework for walls or pillars. Plaster made of clay or a blocks are capable enough to withstand significant loads cement mixture fills the space between all bottles while a after 28 days of curing. The compression test results showed roof made of wood or corrugated metal completes the house. that the blocks with plastic bottle arrangement perpendicular As only regional products are used the houses are cheap and to the load axis has more strength than that of parallel can be afforded even by poor families. Our project intends arrangement. The arrangement of plastic bottles is tied to investigate the application of waste plastic bottles as one together with nylon rope to prevent slipping of bottles over of the urban wastage in buildings construction and that how one another while casting. The soil filled plastic bottles of it can lead to sustainable development. In this project, we try similar size are tied together in different types of to different patterns for construction of plastic bottle arrangements and casted in mortar cubes of 1:4 and 1:6 masonry and compare various factors like as compressive cement sand mix mortar. After proper curing, the casted strength, durability and construction cost with normal brick specimens are tested for compression under universal testing masonry. machine on 7th, 14th and 28th day after casting and curing. A. Benefits of Bottle Construction There were two types of arrangements of bottles made, first in which the bottles are kept parallel to the load application 1) Waste management and second, in which the plastic bottle is kept perpendicular To build a small house one can use as many as 10,000 used to the axis of loading. Different results were observed and bottles which are readily available. Waste that would comparison is plotted on various days for specifies loadings otherwise be deposited in a landfill can now help solve other and mortar mixes. As Per the results obtained, it has been social problems like housing, schools and clinics. If the proved that the plastic bottle bricks are a sustainable communities want to get rid of other plastic waste the material for construction in the modern world. The bottles can be filled prior to construction. Waste like paper suggested blocks are low cost and an innovative and plastic is then permanently removed from the construction material. environment. Key words: Urban Waste, Global Warming, Plastic Bottles, 2) Environmental benefits Load Bearing Partition Walls, Sustainable Material, Unlike "traditional" bricks, bottle bricks are not fired, this as Compressive strength, Low Cost Construction Material, well as the weight consideration in terms of transport Innovative Construction Material contributes to a more eco- friendly building system. 3) Provide structures I. INTRODUCTION Any statistic would have to be an educated guess, since in Plastic material is any of a wide range of synthetic, semi- many parts of the world homeless people are considered synthetic or organic solids used in the manufacturing of outside normal society. Approximately 1 billion people do industrial products. The word plastic is derived from the not have suitable housing and 500 million have no housing Greek (plastikos) meaning capable of being shaped or whatsoever. moulded. 4) Cost effective The raw materials needed to make most plastics The use of recycled material makes it more affordable than come from petroleum and natural gas. Plastic packaging is conventional building methods and will increase the growing due to the cost effectiveness and the demand due to accessibility to suitable housing. It is a well-insulated the population pressure on planet earth. solution that will reduce energy consumption to control Plastic is one of the most disposable materials in temperatures. Constructing a house by plastic bottles used the modern world. Plastic bottles are increasingly becoming for the walls, joist ceiling and concrete column offers us a menace to the environment due to the chemicals used in 45% diminution in the final cost. Separation of various All rights reserved by www.ijsrd.com 1133 Studies on Eco-Friendly Soil and Sawdust Filled Plastic Bottles to Promote Sustainable Development for Partition Walls (IJSRD/Vol. 5/Issue 03/2017/292) components of cost shows that the use of local manpower in 4) Good housing attracts economic investment and making bottle walls can lead to cost reduction up to 75% development. compared to building the walls using the brick and concrete Contributes to thriving school systems and block. It must be noted that the sophisticated manpower can community organizations. lead to reducing the construction time and the relative costs A catalyst for civic activism and a stimulus for also become lower. community-based organizations. 5) Good construction ability Safe homes and neighbourhoods help to build The walls built by these bottles are lighter than the walls social stability and security. built by brick and block, and that makes these buildings to 5) Housing must become a priority show a good response against earthquake. Due to the The percentage of people without access to decent, compaction of filling materials in each bottle, resistance of stable housing is rising. each bottle against the load is 20 times higher compared to Increasing the housing supply across the globe is brick. And these compressed filling materials, makes the essential. plastic bottle to be prevented from passing the shot that Adequate housing is vitally important to the health makes the building as a bulletproof shelter. of the world’s economies, communities, and 6) Non-brittle characteristic populations. Using the non-brittle materials can reduce construction If we are to succeed in the fight against poverty, we waste. Unlike brick, plastic bottle is non-brittle. So due to must support the expansion of housing both as the frangibility property, the percentage of producing policy and in practice. construction waste in brick is more than plastic bottles. 7) Absorbs abrupt shock loads II. LITERATURE REVIEW Flexibility is a characteristic which makes the buildings performance higher against the unexpected load. Since the Mojtaba et al. [1] concluded that reusing the plastic bottles plastic bottles are not fragile, they can be flexible and as the building materials can have substantial effects on tolerates sudden loads without failure. This characteristic saving the building embodied energy by using them instead can also increase the buildings bearing capacity against the of bricks in walls and reducing the CO2 emission in earthquake. manufacturing the cement by reducing the percentage of 8) Green Construction cement used. It is counted as one of the foundation’s green Plastic bottles can cause the green construction by saving project and has caught the attention of the architecture and energy and resources, recycling materials, minimizing the construction industry. Generally the bottle houses are emission, having significant operational savings and bioclimatic in design, which means that when it is cold increasing work place productivity outside is warm inside and when it is warm it is cold inside. Constructing a house by plastic bottles used for the walls, B. Housing Problems joist ceiling and concrete column offers us 45% diminution 1) The world is experiencing a global housing crisis. in the final cost. Separation of various components of cost About 1.6 billion people live in substandard shows that the use of local manpower in making bottle housing and 100 million are homeless. panels can lead to cost reduction up to 75% compared to Each week, more than 1 million babies are born in, building the walls using the brick and concrete block. or move to, cities in the developing world. Shilpi et al. [2] concluded that by utilizing PET One billion people live in urban slums. bottles in construction recycled materials, thermal comfort If no serious action is taken, the number of slum can be achieved in very low cost housing, benefit in dwellers worldwide would increase over the next residents for those who cannot afford to buy and operate 30 years to nearly 2 billion.