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Conventional concrete [ordinary & standard] has basic ingredients: Cement, Aggregate [Coarse and Fine grained] as non-renewable category and Water-as renewable category. The ingredients of non-renewable category have depletion trend and adverse impact on sustainable environment at fast rate along-with huge cost factor. The water though belongs to renewable category, but in limited nature of good quality. The major civil engineering structures, constructed through concrete presently are associated with certain defects like: deformation, crack formation, seepage & leakage, non-durable and less stable within the designed time period. The eco-friendly, economically viable of improved strength and reduced cost based, Waste Materials are available in prevailing Indian socio-environmental set-up as well as in Agricultural & Industrial sectors. Seventeen such waste materials [six of renewable category and eleven of non-renewable category] have been investigated, whose properties are equivalent to ingredients of conventional concrete as Cement, Coarse Aggregate [stone chips] and Fine Aggregate [sand]. The geo-technical characterization of such relevant waste materials have been studied under their physical and strength parameters [index and engineering properities] namely: density, specific gravity, water absorption [%], fineness of modulus, workability, w/c ratio, CBR, compressive strength, split tensile strength, flexural strength, along-with application as improved quality of conventional concrete. The proper utilization of these waste materials under �recycle� is the future of Indian concrete, along-with national mission of Clean Environment & Green Environment.