Experimental Study of Bituminous Concrete Containg Plastic Waste Material

Abstract

Waste material Management is one of the powerful concept in recent year. To overcome the plastic waste by leaps and bond requires reuse of waste materials in road construction. Being non-degradable in nature, the plastic waste is a serious threat to environment. This threat has emphasized the need to find appropriate solutions for effective plastic waste management. Rapid growth of infrastructure in road construction needs natural resources. In recent year escalation of prizes of natural resources, so that required reuse of waste material in road construction. Now-a-days disposal of different wastes (plastic waste) produced from different Industries is a great problem. In recent years, applications of industrial wastes have been considered in road construction with great interest in many industrialized and developing countries. Reuse of wastes material is a very simple but powerful concept. In this paper we use Low Density polyethylene (LDPE) in road construction. The waste shredded plastic of size 2mm to 8mm was used to coat stone aggregates so as to make them as polymer coated aggregate before they were mixed in hot mix plant (HMP). The bitumen polymer coated aggregate mixture, then, was used in road Construction. There is a need to explore the feasibility of use of plastic waste in road construction. This paper deals with study on the various test performed on aggregates, bitumen and methodology of using plastic waste in bituminous mixes.