Plastic Waste Management with Expanded Polystyrene Beads

Abstract

Plastic waste is the one of the serious environmental issue due to its non-biodegradability nature. The disposing of plastic waste and plastic waste management becomes a major task in developing countries like India due to rapid growth of population and industrialization. Plastic stands in the top most place among variety of solid waste materials, and causes heavy environmental hazards which will affect the future generations and peers. The present study was focused to investigate and understand the attributes of concrete which is made of partial replacement of coarse aggregate with Expanded Polystyrene Beads using M20 mix design. Concrete cubes were casted taking 0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% of Expanded Polystyrene beads as partial replacement of coarse aggregate and tested for 7days, 14days and 28days of compressive strength of concrete.