Plastic Bottle in Construction

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Disposal of non-bio-degradable substance has become an issue of major concern today. Mounds of plastic garbage have been created on earth surface. Laterite quarry waste is abundantly available and disposal of waste plastics is the biggest challenge. Only one in six plastic bottles is properly recycled. On other hand high cost of primary requirement for constructing the houses in places on where people are under poverty line is forming one of most significant problems to people.

A suitable approach for this situation is using some part of urban rubbish or waste as required materials for building construction. Plastic bottle is considered as urban junk but with sustainability characteristic it can be used as construction material instead of some conventional material such as brick in building construction. Use of innovative materials with sustainable application such as plastic bottles can have considerable benefits including finding the best optimization in energy consumption of the region, reducing environmental degradation.

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