Abstract
Increase in environmental concerns has been leading to develop innovative and eco-friendly ideas to re -use the waste byproducts from industries and domestic use. Waste plastic and wast e tyres/crumb rubber considered as solid waste in I ndia which causes environmental pollution. These wastes will be dispo sed by land filling and incineration which are haza rdous. Plastic is user friendly but not eco-friendly. In this present study waste p lastic and crumb rubber has been used to modify the conventional bituminous mix. This modifier raw-material has been sourced from di sposed waste plastic and crumb rubber. This provide s a solution towards ecological menace posed by increased use of plastic . Incorporation of waste plastic which is mainly co nsists of LDPE had been done by “dry process”; an in-situ process which can be p racticed locally. In this process addition of plast ic has been done by replacing bitumen by percentage by weight in varying percenta ge. Marshall Method of bituminous mix design was ca rried out. Significant improvement in properties like Marshall Stability, retained stability, indirect tensile strength has been observed in waste plastic bituminous mix compared to conventional mix.
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