In the last 70 years, around 8.3 billion tones of plastics have been produced, of this 8.3 billion tones 6.3 billion tones of plastic have been discarded; every year, nearly 13 million tons of plastic have been added to the oceans. when we see the impact, about 50% of it consists of single-use such as bottles, plastic bags, packaging, straws, stirrers, spoons, and forks.1(one) million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute. every year we use up to 5 trillion disposable plastic bags ultimately results in clog rivers, water bodies, the threat to marine life forms, unauthorized garbage dumps and landfills. in the case of institutions (wet lab-conducting life science experiments), lots of high-grade plastics such as eppendorf tubes, pipette tips, culture plates, one-time usable pipettes and other high-grade plastics remains un-accounted. if we look at institute as a small housing community (students + academic staffs) there are conferences, housing and fooding consist of huge amounts of use of day to day plastic. we can use this plastic in the construction of plastic bricks, pavements, tiles, roads, etc. this product can be used by the institutes of india itself as their routine maintenance, thus promoting the motto of zero-plastic adaptation in the institutes of india. this small effort can have impact on the pinnacle of plastic recycling. both construction business and plastic waste is a giant eternal cycle, with the incorporation of plastic waste and with precise addition of industrial waste like fly ash, bricks can be made which are much more sustainable and cheaper than the traditional bricks, tiles and pavements can also be made with this plastic waste, also these tiles made, can be recycled again , this tiles and pavements will be entirely reusable thus making it perpetual in long run.
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