Experimental Analysis on the Stability of the Soil Using Medical Waste

Abstract

Abstract: Due to pandemic and other health care activities, there is an increase in generation of Medicine and Medical waste also Out of which 85% of Hospital waste disposed are general non-hazardous waste that can be recycled and reused. On the other hand, there is a need in increasing the strength of the sub-grade economically. Therefore attempts has been made to recycle the medical waste and are used as a soil stabilizer material to increase the strength of the sub-grade. In this project, Medical waste such as Plastic flakes and Expired tablets are used as a stabilizer. The effect of stabilization using these materials were evaluated by carrying out standard laboratory tests. The tests have been done for both natural soil and stabilized soil with a combination of 1% of expired medicine (GLIMI DM PLUS) with different proportion of plastic flakes such as 0.25%, 0.5%, 0.75% and 1%. A series of Standard proctor compaction test and Soaked California Bearing ratio test were done for both natural soil and soil with stabilizers. The test results shows that there is an improvement in the strength of the soil when adding medical waste and furthermore increase in the proportion of the medical waste causes gradual decrease in the strength of the soil. Thus adding medical waste at a certain amount increase the stability of the sub-grade.