| Abstract |
Poly-Crete, a short name for polymer
concrete is a concept of producing
concrete from recycled plastic powder.
The innovation from this concept is
largely due to high consumption of
plastic bottles but bad in handling
the wastes. The plastic powder will be
used as replacement for fine
aggregates in concrete production. It
is known that the usage of recycled
waste will reduce environment problem
such as sand mining issue. Indirectly,
since Poly-Crete is using recycled
wastes as its material, the cost of
concrete production will be reduced,
and this will possibly have an impact
towards the construction cost. With
this, there will be an increase of
more infrastructures in this country,
which in beneficial to Malaysia
economy. Poly-Crete has a potential to
penetrate into construction industrial
market as it offers lower price of raw
material for concrete. Plus, it is
also a more sustainable approach
compared to the conventional concrete. |