Making Floor Tiles From Plastic Waste

Make floor tiles from plastic bags and film you can recycle plastic bags into waterproof floor tiles using simple tools.

Making floor tiles from plastic waste. Converting plastic waste into flooring tiles sounds incredible but this has been achieved by the students of mechanical engineering of the rayat bahra university. Make up around 60 of all plastic waste in the gambia. We wash and shred the recycled plastic and put the regrinds into molds to make shapes. They re light but extremely dense and nearly unbreakable.

Use of low density polyethylene water sachets to form plastic bonded sand blocks. This research paper was published in waste management 80 2018 112 118. Download the full pdf. 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.

When the plastic has melted mix in sand. A team of four students has developed durable tiles made from the waste plastic. Up until now nothing the tiles are 100 percent high density polyethylene hdpe plastic. Transfer the mixture to an oiled mould.

By zoë lenkiewicz sep 24 2018. 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. 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. This was done as a part of their project work.

Worksheet number 3 this kind of plastic is called low density polyethylene ldpe. Remove the mould and. 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. Recycling waste plastics in developing countries.

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. 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. Melt ldpe plastic film in a barrel over a wood fire.