Utilization of Waste Materials in Preparation of Eco Friendly Brick

there has been a considerable imbalance between availability of conventional building material and their demand in the recent past. For environmental protection and sustainable development, extensive research has been conducted on production of bricks from waste materials. This paper presents an experimental study on the utilization of waste materials viz. Fly ash and waste plastic to produce ecofriendly bricks. Considering the abundant availability of fly ash waste and waste plastic, an attempt has been made to manufacture the ecofriendly brick by using 60 % liquefied waste plastic and 40 % fly ash. The compressive strength and absorption of ecofriendly brick was 9.7N/mm2 and 2.75% which was much better the same size (22×12×4cm) clay brick. With negligible water absorption and satisfactory compressive strength in comparison with other fly ash brick or mud brick the ecofriendly brick can compensates the increasing demand of conventional building materials.