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ClearA critical review of the current progress of plastic waste recycling technology in structural materials
Researchers reviewed technologies for recycling plastic waste into construction materials such as concrete and asphalt, finding this approach can meaningfully reduce the environmental burden of plastic pollution. Incorporating plastic waste into building materials offers a practical path toward both waste reduction and more sustainable construction.
Marine Plastic Waste in Construction: A Systematic Review of Applications in the Built Environment
This systematic review evaluates how recycled marine plastic waste can be used in construction materials like concrete, asphalt, bricks, and insulation. Reusing ocean plastics in buildings could help reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. While performance varies, this approach offers a promising way to address marine plastic waste while creating useful building materials.
Recycling of Plastic Waste in the Construction Industry
This review examines the use of recycled plastic waste in construction applications including concrete, asphalt, insulation, and structural composites, assessing the performance, durability, and environmental benefits of incorporating waste plastics into building materials to reduce landfill disposal.
Systematic Review of Plastic Waste as Eco-Friendly Aggregate for Sustainable Construction
This systematic review examines how recycled plastic waste can be used as a substitute for traditional aggregates in concrete and construction materials. Using plastic waste in construction could divert it from landfills and waterways where it breaks down into microplastics. The review evaluates the structural performance and environmental benefits of incorporating plastic into building materials.
Recycling/reuse of plastic waste as construction material for sustainable development: a review
Researchers reviewed how waste plastic can be incorporated into construction materials — as binders, aggregates, or cement substitutes in bricks, tiles, concrete, and roads — finding that plastic-modified materials often show competitive strength properties while simultaneously diverting plastic waste from landfills.
Feasibility Study of the Use of Concrete Blocks Produced From Plastic Marine Garbage for Use in Civil Construction
Researchers investigated the feasibility of producing concrete blocks incorporating plastic waste collected from marine and coastal environments, testing blocks with varying proportions of recycled plastic as a partial aggregate replacement in civil construction applications. The study assessed the mechanical and physical properties of the resulting composite blocks, evaluating whether marine plastic garbage could be valorized as a construction material while reducing environmental plastic loads.
An Analysis of the State-of-the-art in Plastic Scrap Recycling Strategies for Construction Components
This review examines strategies for recycling plastic waste in construction applications, covering methods to convert plastic scraps into building components and discussing barriers including contamination, mixed polymer streams, and regulatory restrictions on plastic use in structural applications.
Using Plastic Wastes in Construction: Opportunities and Challenges
This review examines the opportunities and challenges of incorporating plastic waste into construction materials, motivated by rapid urbanization and a pandemic-driven surge in plastic waste generation. The study evaluates technical performance, sustainability trade-offs, and regulatory considerations for using recycled plastics as building materials.
The Holistic Approach of Plastic Waste Recycling for Sustainable Development
This review examines how plastic waste can be incorporated into construction materials including bricks, tiles, concrete, and roads as a binder, aggregate, or modifier. The authors find that using plastic waste in construction reduces landfill burden and dependence on mined resources, though performance effects vary by application.
Valorization of post-consumer plastic packaging into a composite material
This study developed a composite building material from post-consumer mixed plastic packaging waste, providing a higher-value end use that diverts plastic from landfill. Using plastic waste in durable construction products reduces the amount available to degrade into microplastics in the environment.
Experimental Tests on Lightweight Cement Mortar and Concrete with Recycled Plastic Wastes
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it tests the mechanical properties of cement mortar and concrete incorporating recycled plastic waste granules as aggregate substitutes, a construction materials engineering study.
Valorization of Plastic Waste through Incorporation into Construction Materials
This review of 60 studies examines how plastic waste is being incorporated into construction materials — including concrete, asphalt, and bricks — as a sustainable valorization strategy, finding that recycled plastics can improve certain material properties while diverting waste from landfills.
A Step towards Sustainable Concrete with Substitution of Plastic Waste in Concrete: Overview on Mechanical, Durability and Microstructure Analysis
This review evaluates the use of plastic waste as a substitute material in concrete, analyzing its effects on mechanical strength, durability, and microstructure to assess its viability as a sustainable construction approach.
Assessment of Plastic-Infused Concrete Bricks and Their Suitability for Interlocking: Mechanical, Durability, and Environmental Perspectives
Researchers tested plastic-infused concrete bricks as a way to repurpose plastic waste in construction materials, evaluating their mechanical strength and suitability for different building applications. The study explores whether incorporating plastic waste into durable materials can reduce the plastic entering the environment as microplastics.
Potential Applications of Different Forms of Recycled Plastics as Construction Materials—A Review
This review examined potential applications of different forms of recycled plastics (granules, powder, fiber, aggregate) as construction materials, identifying suitable recycling methodologies and construction products with performance benefits such as improved toughness and reduced weight.
Integrating Plastic Waste into Concrete: Sustainable Solutions for the Environment
This review examines research on incorporating plastic waste into concrete as a partial replacement for conventional aggregates and cement. Researchers found that adding recycled plastic can reduce concrete density and improve thermal insulation properties, though it generally decreases compressive strength at higher replacement ratios. The study suggests that optimizing plastic content and treatment methods could make this approach a viable strategy for diverting plastic waste from landfills.
Societal impact of recycling waste into composite materials
This review examines how recycling various types of waste, including plastics, into composite materials can reduce environmental pollution and support a circular economy. Researchers surveyed methods for transforming plastic waste, agricultural residues, and industrial byproducts into useful construction and engineering materials. The study highlights that waste-derived composites can offer comparable performance to conventional materials while significantly reducing the environmental footprint of waste disposal.
Repurposing Single-Use Plastic Waste as Artificial Aggregates Partially Replacing the Natural Fine Aggregate in Concrete — A Review
This review examines how single-use plastic waste can be repurposed as aggregate material in concrete mixtures, replacing natural sand. Analyzing 135 studies, it finds that recycled plastic aggregates can affect concrete mechanical properties while diverting plastic waste from landfills and oceans.
Waste Plastic and Rubber in Concrete and Cement Mortar: A Tertiary Literature Review
This review synthesized tertiary literature on using waste plastic and rubber in concrete and cement mortar, finding that while these recycled materials offer environmental benefits, they generally reduce mechanical strength and require careful optimization.
Exploration of Interior Material Based on Plastic Waste
Researchers explored the potential for plastic waste to be transformed into interior design materials, using observation, interviews, and documentation methods to analyze the process from material collection through fabrication. The study characterized the physical and chemical properties of plastic waste relevant to its use as an interior material and assessed structural strength alongside its environmental risks.
Plastic Waste Management Strategies and Their Environmental Aspects: A Scientometric Analysis and Comprehensive Review
This review analyzes plastic waste management strategies worldwide through a large-scale review of scientific literature. Among six approaches studied, using plastic waste in road construction and concrete production were found to be the most environmentally beneficial, while landfills remain the most harmful due to creating microplastic pollution and releasing toxic chemicals. The findings are relevant to human health because better waste management directly reduces the amount of microplastics entering the environment.
Mechanical and Microstructural Investigation of Geopolymer Concrete Incorporating Recycled Waste Plastic Aggregate
This study investigated incorporating recycled waste plastic aggregate into geopolymer concrete, finding that it can produce structurally viable construction materials while diverting plastic waste from landfill and reducing reliance on virgin aggregates.
Polyethylene (PE) Waste Minimization Study of Cement Mortar with Adding PE Content under Different W/B Ratios
This study tested cement mortar containing recycled polyethylene plastic waste, finding that small amounts of plastic can be incorporated without significantly compromising durability, offering a route for diverting plastic from landfills into construction materials.
A Comprehensive Review of Plastic Recycling in the Construction Industry: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S.
Despite its title referencing plastic recycling in the construction industry, this paper reviews the barriers and opportunities for incorporating recycled plastics into building materials in the United States — not microplastic pollution itself. It examines economic, technical, and regulatory challenges for construction-sector plastic recycling and is only indirectly relevant to microplastics through the lens of reducing plastic waste at source.