Rapid urbanization in India is creating a shortage of houses. Using artificial aggregates for quality concrete is innovative step to overcome this problem. Number of investigations carried out in the past has shown usefulness of artificial aggregates in construction. There are huge quantities of waste materials available like fly ash, concrete waste, silica fumes, marble scum, industrial waste, agricultural waste, red soils etc. Use of many of this waste has become common in producing various products like fly ash concrete, jute boards. One of such waste material is plastic produced in huge quantity throughout the world in the form of plastic carry bags, bottles and other plastic scrap etc. In this paper therefore an attempt has been made to use plastic granules to replace coarse aggregates and the findings are given. This research therefore deals with studying the performance of concrete by replacing natural aggregate with plastic granules.
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