Making Floor Tiles From Plastic Waste

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.

Making floor tiles from plastic waste.

Make up around 60 of all plastic waste in the gambia. Worksheet number 3 this kind of plastic is called low density polyethylene ldpe. A team of four students has developed durable tiles made from the waste plastic. Transfer the mixture to an oiled mould.

How to recycle plastic waste into paving tiles. 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. 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. They re light but extremely dense and nearly unbreakable.

Converting plastic waste into flooring tiles sounds incredible but this has been achieved by the students of mechanical engineering of the rayat bahra university. Remove the mould and. Recycling waste plastics in developing countries. We wash and shred the recycled plastic and put the regrinds into molds to make shapes.

Download the full pdf. 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 was done as a part of their project work. 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.

The group members. When the plastic has melted mix in sand. This research paper was published in waste management 80 2018 112 118. Melt ldpe plastic film in a barrel over a wood fire.

By zoë lenkiewicz sep 24 2018. Up until now nothing the tiles are 100 percent high density polyethylene hdpe plastic. 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.