Scope of Using Recycled Plastic and its Components as Building Materials

Scope of Using Recycled Plastic and its Components as Building Materials

Ar. Anushka Likhar, M. Arch student

likharanushka8@gmail.com

ABSTRACT-

Due to rise in unleashed industrial development, our world is now engulfed by solid wastes. In that huge pile of wastes, plastic is one of the prime culprits for degrading our nature. The used plastics (which are not recycled) are either end up in oceans or landfills and continue to create environmental problems. On regular basis, thousands of tonnes of plastic waste is being created all around the world. Such type of situation can be created by using plastic as a primary construction material for small houses.

The main objective of the research is to show how plastic as a construction material and various construction elements can reduce the stacks of junk plastic piles around the globe. Along with that how it can reduce the time and labour required for construction and also help to reduce the casualties during natural calamities like earthquake and to understand the ‘total plastic’ construction phenomenon with its advantages and disadvantages. On one hand we have problem of plastic waste management and on the other hand we have housing crises in urban areas. To combine and come up with a solution we can use plastic recycled building materials as an affordable and quick construction source for housing development for urban Regions. Also to understand the actual practical situation of using plastic houses and required structure and method for shelters made out of such material will be analysed.

Keywords: Plastic waste, Sustainability, Building material, Recycled plastic, Construction.