India is buried under waste stacks as more than 1.50
lakhs ofsolid waste (MT) per day is produced. Worse, nearly 90%
of the total volume is collected (135,000 tonnes daily). Almost
15,000 MT of waste remains exposed each day, which leads to a
"severe" amount of contamination of some 55 lakh of MT of solid
waste disposed of each year in open surface. Just 20% (27 000
tonnes per day) of the total waste collected and 80% (1 08 000
tonnes per day) was disposed of. The remaining 80% is disposed of
on site. Progress in the management of solid waste has resulted in
materials that replace conventional materials, including bricks,
blocks,tiles, aggregates, ceramics, cement, lime, soil, timber and
paint. In this research, Eco blocks are generated using waste
materials like fly-ash and waste using aggregates of cement and
yard. It optimizes materials with various combinations and defines
the compression strength of the eco-blocks. Days of 7.71, 5.8 and
9.10 N/mm2 are compressive strengths of 14 and 28. The strength
of ecological blocks is equal to or above that of the local
company’s regular concrete blocks. The study showed that solid
waste can be used for solid block processing. We also analyzed
how debris can be recycled to find an alternative to reduce natural
resource costs and use.
Application of Recycled Waste Materials for Highway Construction: Prospect and Challenges