Recycled plastic aggregate in mortars composition: Effect on physical and mechanical properties

By F. Iucolano, B. Liguori, D. Caputo, F. Colangelo, R. Cioffi. 2013

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Current Sustainable Trends of Using Waste Materials in Concrete—A Decade Review (2020, background): “Iucolano et al. [81] reported an almost 50% reduction in conductivity when replacing only 20% of sand in mortar with mostly polyolefin aggregates.”
Engineering Properties of Concrete with Waste Recycled Plastic: A Review (2018, background): “In other studies, it was suggested that a small fraction of the waste plastics has a shape similar to short fibers, and is able to bridge the crack to a certain extent, providing the material with some post-peak toughening [48].”
A review of unconventional sustainable building insulation materials (2015, background): “Finally, the substitution in mortars of part of the siliceous sandwith recycled plastic (polyolefin and PET) allows to reduce their thermal conductivity, but also the compressive strength [100].”