Confection of recycled HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) plastic tile: the first prototype Caio Cesar Vicente Reis, Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira Andrade, Luis Felipe de Almeida Duarte

Abstract

Technological advances are increasingly transforming the society in which we live. In civil engineering, it is no different, in this area raw materials are sought from non-renewable sources, such as oil that we use unbridled. Plastic is a material that is found in abundance in our society, however, like the garbage that is produced, it is also disposed of improperly, which ends up harming the environment. Along with the evolution of the world, new ways to reuse this waste are studied, such as the reuse of plastic in various sectors, which can be used in civil construction, and thus, reducing the impact on the environment and successively a financial economy. With this, using plastic recycling, it is possible to transform this waste that would be disposed of wrongly in nature into sustainable tiles, thus reducing the impacts that these plastics could cause on our ecosystem. This study have made a prototype of tile made from recycled HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) plastic as raw material.