There are several recycling materials that has the potential to be used in concrete. Few of them are tire derived aggregates, crumb rubber, iron slags, e-wastes, etc.
There are several recycling materials that has the potential to be used in concrete. Few of them are tire derived aggregates, crumb rubber, iron slags, e-wastes, etc.
Dear Madam dont forget dried dropped leaves from trees such as teak trees as the leaves are good and strong and has tremendous binding strength --- it is a age old technique when in old times mud walls were built. Thanks
use the waste tyre as the partial replacement of the aggregate and combine one of the fibers in it.... combination of waste with some advance construction material.
To produce a green concrete, you can use recycled concrete aggregates, recycled masonry aggregates,recycled waste tire,recycled PET and recycled bricks as an coarse and fine aggregate. Fly ash, micro silica, nano silica,rice husk ash, zeolite and metakaolin are most common supplementary cementitious material (SCM) to reduce cement content. some another materials like recycled glass in the form of powder (as a filler ) and aggregate and bamboo, recycled PET as fiber are an other materials to produce green concrete.
Here, I have listed down some of the waste materials that can be used in concrete to make is greener that conventional concrete. However, the decision should be made based on the availability of waste material in your place.
Aggregates:
1. Recycled aggregate (coarse & fine aggregate) [Concrete industry waste]
You can use Volcanic ash, sludge powder, Incinerated Sludge ash, flash, volcanic ash, wood ash, waste from industries like haematite, Silica, paper industry waste, textile industry waste,e waste, thermosetting plastic waste etc. as a partial replacement with cement or some with fine aggregates.
It depends on what you are trying to achieve. Most concrete technologists subscribe to "the rule of 5%" - you can put what you like in so long as you don't exceed 5 %. But I think you are more interested in the possibility of replacing cement content? To some extent the same rule applies, but you need to think very carefully about how whatever it is you are puuting in will affect the chemistry of the system: you need something that has a high silica/alumino-silicate content.
The constituents of concrete can be recycled materials, and concrete itself can also be recycled; these materials are usually available locally. Most concrete in urban areas is recycled as fill or road base and not placed in landfills. Concrete pieces from demolished structures can also be reused to protect shorelines, for example in gabion walls or as rip rap.
You have to find a material that can not be degradable or can not recyclable then it represent an environmental issue . for example all types of plastic can be recycled to plastic again except plastic type PET. so you can use PET grains in concrete .Also the grains of used tires can be used in concrete .