Effects of Cigarette Butts in Fly Ash Cement Bricks

Cigarette butts are more than just pesky litter, their filters contain heavy metals, and since they take many years to break down, that gives these metals plenty of time to leach into the soil and water. It has become a big environmental threat. Using fly ash and cigarette butts and developing cement bricks with the help of these was the idea that was taken up as an innovative concept. The fly ash cement bricks with cigarette butts (FCBCB) were studied; different useful properties and prospects of the material were investigated; as a new building material, the FCBCB has shown very good plasticity and low water absorption characteristics.