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In India, bricks are usually made up of clay, and are generally produced in traditional, unorganized small-scale industries. Brick making consumes larger amount of clay which leads to top soil removal and land degradation. To avoid all this environmental threat an attempt was made to study the behavior of bricks manufactured using, waste materials from sugarcane industrial waste. Recycling of such waste as raw material alternatives may contribute in the exhaustion of the natural resources and reduction in waste disposal costs. In this project we choose sugarcane bagasse ash (SBA) and press mud in ordinary Portland cement (OPC) stabilized bricks. The brick was manufactured of size 25cm x 12cm x 6.5cm. The blocks were named as 4, 6 and 8 then it is added with SBA and press mud by weight of dry soil, then the bricks followed by curing f or period of 28 days. The test like compressive strength, water absorption test, shape and size test in accordance with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) specifications by also considering the cost. There is a strong demand for environmentally safe reuse and effective disposal method for bagasse ash and press mud due to the increasing amount of sludge generated by the various industries or plant in India. Landfills are commonly us ed for disposal of sludge in India; rapid urbanization has made it increasingly difficult to find suitable landfill sites. Therefore, incineration has become one of the few alternatives available for disposal of sludge. The ultimate disposal of incinerated bagasse ash and press mud can be accomplished by using it an engineering construction material. One possible solution for the management of this sludge is to re-use it as a building material, namely, to incorporate this bagasse ash and press mud into bricks. The fired clay brick is one of the most common and abundant masonry building materials and remain popular for its many characteristic properties. As such, the recycling of waste materials by incorporating them into bricks has been a popular topic of investigation over the last century, with varying degrees of success across a wide range of waste material. This popularity is likely due to flexibility on the type of wastes which can be mixed in to the brick making material, but more importantly, the high temperature involved in firing the bricks allows for the volatilization of dangerous Component, as well as the fixation of wastes into the vitreous phase of the brick. The current study investigates the potential for reusing sugarcane sludge or bagasse ash and press mud by using it as a partial replacement material.