How can I recycle plastic bags to make building bricks?

We have a lot of waste plastic bags and am wondering if I can recycle them to make building bricks. There is one or two companies in my location recycling the same to make fencing poles, but I would like to manufacture huge quantities of hardened brings for building, Road construction etc. By doing this, I will be resolving a very big environmental problem as well as creating jobs and some income.



I would like to know the technology involved and if there is a company involved in what I have in mind and is preparing to either go into partnership with me or help me in setting up such a factory..How can I recycle plastic bags to make building bricks?The typical red brick is fired at about 1000掳C so the plastic would burn so that would only change the sate of your waste from solid to gas, generating a different type of pollution



you must be talking about building bricks based on a mixture of sand and portland cement. you would need to find a way to shred the plastic, to small pieces, preferably not stripes.

Then you would have to do a series of tests to investigate the amount of plastic you can add to a brick to maintain mechanical resistance.



One possible advantage would be that the permeability (water penetration) would be improved. Not to mention savings in the usage of natural resources like sand, which althouhg is a very abundant resource, its mining has consequences in the habitats of some species.How can I recycle plastic bags to make building bricks?Plastic bags are usually made of LDPE (Low Density Poly Ethylene). Present uses for this material are trash bags, grocery bags, tubing, agricultural films, and engineered lumber.

For structural material, like "bricks", you would need a high-density plastic material otherwise you'll never get the mechanical strength required to - say - hold a snow laden roof without starting to slowly squash your plastic bricks together.

As for using those bags in road surfaces, please read http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/570219鈥?/a>



I would get together with a Chemist (organic), and join the "Plastic Lumber" brigade, but coming up with a method (cost / performance) that makes you competitive or better than what exists today.

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