Making Floor Tiles From Plastic Waste

Make up around 60 of all plastic waste in the gambia.

Making floor tiles from plastic waste.

By zoë lenkiewicz sep 24 2018. Transfer the mixture to an oiled mould. This was done as a part of their project work. Use of low density polyethylene water sachets to form plastic bonded sand blocks.

Remove the mould and. Melt ldpe plastic film in a barrel over a wood fire. This research paper was published in waste management 80 2018 112 118. The group members.

As a solution to the growing problem of a gloomy future with all of us being smothered by heaps of plastic laalej and mirouche devised a way to reuse plastic waste instead of cement to make eco friendly tiles circumventing the energy intensive process of plastic recycling. This work focuses on the possibility of making a composite material from à sand dune a natural source abounds and recycled height density polythene hdper by. Make floor tiles from plastic bags and film you can recycle plastic bags into waterproof floor tiles using simple tools. For the tile making process the plastic waste is further segregated into low density plastic mostly used to make bags high density plastics used in bottles and polypropylene pp used in.

Worksheet number 3 this kind of plastic is called low density polyethylene ldpe. Up until now nothing the tiles are 100 percent high density polyethylene hdpe plastic. The results obtained from the analysis of the plates tiles specimen made of various recycled waste plastic was seen to have maximum deformations of 1 7499 1 7445 1 7242 1 7499 and 1 556mm for. How to transform plastic waste into paving tiles 1 how to transform plastic waste into paving tiles you can convert waste plastic into useful and valuable building materials.

How to recycle plastic waste into paving tiles. The utilization of waste plastic in manufactory of another materiel is a partial solution environmental that will reduce the proportion of waste plastic incineration or landfill. Converting plastic waste into flooring tiles sounds incredible but this has been achieved by the students of mechanical engineering of the rayat bahra university. The present investigation aims at manufacturing floor tiles using waste plastic in different proportions with sand without use of cement and comparing it with the normal cement tiles.

A team of four students has developed durable tiles made from the waste plastic. Recycling waste plastics in developing countries. Download the full pdf.