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This review explores the use of waste plastic bottles in construction, aiming to address the housing deficit in developing countries like Ghana and conserve natural resources. The study highlights how plastic waste, a significant environmental problem in Ghana, can be repurposed. It examines methods such as filling bottles with soil, sand, or solid waste to create bricks or blocks, or using them as substitutes in masonry unit production. The findings indicate that incorporating plastic bottles can reduce construction costs by decreasing the need for conventional materials. Furthermore, buildings constructed with plastic bottle walls can help maintain room temperatures, leading to energy savings and reduced reliance on artificial thermal control systems, thus contributing to environmental friendliness.
This research offers a dual solution to pressing issues: managing plastic waste and providing affordable, sustainable construction materials. By repurposing waste, it can help reduce environmental pollution while also addressing housing shortages and lowering building costs, particularly in regions facing these challenges.
This applied research suggests a pathway for construction companies and housing developers to create more affordable and environmentally friendly buildings. The methods described, such as using filled bottles as bricks or masonry unit substitutes, could be adopted for low-cost housing projects. The potential for cost reduction and energy savings makes this approach attractive for sustainable construction practices, particularly in developing countries. It appears to be at an applied research stage, demonstrating practical applications.
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The vision of this study is geared towards the exploitation of waste plastic bottle use in construction. This review paper is centers on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to help solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials. In Ghana, plastic wastes are discarded randomly after usage, hence scatter around in cities, choking drains, and end up threatening our ecosystem. These predominant effects from the plastic wastes have necessitated the need for countries precisely developing countries including Ghana to seek more sustainable methods to reduce the drastic amount of plastic wastes in the environment. In view of the above, this paper focused on the recycling of waste plastic bottles as a construction material as an effort to solve the housing deficit in most developing countries including Ghana and to save the depletion of natural resources construction materials (stones and sand) are very much critical. In the reviews, an effort has been made to utilize the waster plastic bottles in construction by filling the bottles with soil, sand, solid waste materials as brick or block bounded with mortar as a masonry wall or the filled bottles are used as a substitute for the production of the masonry unit production. In summary, it was concluded based on varying test result that: (1) Plastic waste bottles are cheaper to acquire than most conventional construction materials and as such concrete or brick containing any amount of plastic bottle is noted to reduce the total quantities of conventional materials required, thereby reducing the cost as well. (2) The use of plastic waste bottles in construction contributes to environmental friendliness and energy savings since buildings with walls constructed of plastic bottles maintains room temperatures and contribute to energy saving and the cost of providing an artificial thermal control system. Doi: 10.28991/cej-2020-03091616 Full Text: PDF
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DOI: 10.28991/cej-2020-03091616
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