Theme: Waste Material Engineering: the PNG’s future
Title: “Recycling glass bottles to be used in place of the conventional
building material, aggregates, fine or coarse alike”
Background of Study
Glass can be seen everywhere in today’s world, it
has been around for many generations and has a
long history 5000 years. This means that it has
become an integral part of our society in terms
of its nature as a material, products produced
from glass has been invaluable to us, as it is used
in our everyday lives. However, with such a
durable and popular material, the waste from
used glass products also accumulates. This
brings us to the intention of utilizing waste
glass, more specifically in our study, the recy-
cling of waste glass bottles. The main motive
behind this initiative was inspired by the waste
glass chili bottles the Unitech Mess manage-
ment IPI discards at the dump. Literature
reviews has led to a simple solution of convert-
ing this glass bottles into suitable replacement
in fine and coarse aggregates in concrete. A
similar study by S.P Gutum (2012) concluded
that the optimum replacement level of waste
glass as fine aggregate is 10%, this forms the
basis of our study and we proceeded to investi-
gate through testing, hence coming up with our
final product.
Introduction
Waste glass bottles are everywhere, in villages,
towns and cities of Papua New Guinea. “Disposal
of more than 300 tonnes waste glass daily
derived from post-consumer beverage bottles is
one of the major environmental challenges …
and this challenge continues to escalate as
limited recycling channels can be identified and
the capacity of valuable landfill space is going to
be saturated at an alarming rate” (Elsevier B.V.
(2012)). However, being engineering students,
we have undertaken a study to find a solution to
recycle these waste glass bottles for our CE 261
Project. The main objective of the research
undertaken was to convert the waste glass
bottles into substituent building aggregates,
coarse or fine alike. There were several processes
undertaken to fully process and recover this
waste material, this chart shows the study taken
to recover the waste material and turn it into a
new product as aimed and defined in our objec-
tives.
Primary:
Objectives
1. To create a cheaper alternative to aggregates.
2. Utilizing waste glass bottle material by means of cost effective
simple recycling production.
3. Using engineering to utilize or recycle waste bottles to beauti-
fy concrete structures, in a form of glassy/reflective plaster.
4. To make available to everyone this effective and simple
method of making this material, that they may be able to use in
their own projects.
5. Reducing vast numbers of waste glass bottles in the communi-
ty that are unprocessed and recycling is expensive.
Secondary:
6. Creating a demand for waste glass bottles for small bottle
collecting earners who sell waste bottles to recycling companies.
7. To cater for the possible shortfall of aggregates supply.
Methodology
1. Collection of waste glass bottles.
2. Preparation for crushing.
3. Crushing and sieveing to obtain fine and coarse glass particles.
4. Mixing and curing.
5. Compression test for concrete cube blocks.
6. Plaster department wall for adhesive test.
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Final
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Discussion
Course: 2nd Year From the standard mix of plaster, 10% of the
Civil Engineering aggregate was replaced with very fine glass
particles. To test the effectiveness of this
mix for plaster, two tests were conducted;
Results the compression test and the adhesive test.
The compressive strength test and From the compression test, it was discov-
adhesive test was conducted on a ered that glass aggregates produces solid
concrete but, not to the strength of the
partial subtituent of 10% glass into a
normal pure standard sand and cement
plaster mix. The adhesive test was
successful as the plaster remained concrete mix due to less water used in the
intact and lasts more than 48 hours. mixing and also standard sand was not
used. If adequate amount of water was used,
Shown below is the compressive the mix would have been much stronger.
strength compared to the standard. However the adhesive test conducted was
successful and proved that glass aggregates
Compressive Strength can be used for plastering.
(MPa)
14.5 Conclusion
14 From the adhesive and compression test
14.08
13.5 done, the adhesive test proved the glass
bottles can be used as a substitute for
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aggregate especially for plastering purpos-
12.5
es. Hence, recycling waste glass bottles into
12
12.08 aggregates has a simple methodology and
11.5
in doing so can help reduce or minimize the
Plaster Mix Standard number of waste bottles being disposed
which allows less pollution to our natural
environment and also it saves the cost of
Reference buying aggregates such as sand when
dealing with concrete for construction.
Elsevier B.V. (2012). Management and Therefore, it is a simple and effective idea
recycling of waste glass in concrete which can be cost effective and beneficial to
products. Hong Kong: Hong Kong every individual citizen and to the natural
Polytechnic University. environment of PNG.
S.P. Gautam, Vikas Srivastava and V.C. Recommendation
Agarwal. (2012). Use of glass wastes as This plaster matariel is recommended for
fine aggregate in Concrete. J. Acad. decorative purposes, and is a conveinent
way to recycle waste glass bottles.