CONTENTS
• Introduction
• What are Plastics
Road?
• Material used
• Construction Process
• Field Trials
• Advantages &
Disadvantages
• Waste Plastics Road in
India
• Conclusion
INTRODUCTION:
• Disposal of waste Plastics is a major problem.
• It is non biodegradable.
• It mainly consist of low density polyethylene.
• To find its utility in bituminous mixed for road construction.
• Burning of these Plastics waste causes environmental
pollution.
• Studies proved that waste plastics enhance the property of
bituminous mixed.
WHAT ARE PLASTICS ROAD?
• The road constructed using waste plastics material are known as
“Plastics Road”.
• Plastics Road mainly use plastics bags, disposable cups
& bottles that collect from garbage dump as an
important ingredient of the construction material.
• Plastics Road found to perform better compared to
those constructed by conventional bitumen.
MATERIALS USED :
• AGGREGATE
• Aggregate of 20mm,10mm
• Stone , Dust & Lime as filler
• BITUMEN
• 60/70,80/100
• grade bitumen
• WASTE PLASTICS
• Waste plastics in shredded Form
CONSTRUCTION
PROCESS:
Step:1
First we collect the plastics waste and segregate the
material made out of PP,PE & PS. Then clean it properly,
after that cut into small size between 2.36mm and 4.75mm
using shredding machine.
Step:2
The aggregate mix is heated
to 165°c and transferred to
mixing [Link] amount of
plastics to be added is 8% of
bitumen.
Step:3
Similarly the bitumen is to
be heated up to 160°c to have
good binding and prevent weak
bonding.
Step:4
At the mixing chamber the shredded plastics waste is
to be added it get coated uniformly over the aggregate
with 30 to 60 [Link] an oily look.
Step:5
The Plastics waste
coated aggregate with
got bitumen and the
resulted mix used for
road construction.
Step:6
The road laying temperature is between 110°c to
120°c and the roller are used have capacity 8-ton
generally.
FIELD TRIALS :
• There are two types of field trials:
• Dry Process
• Wet Proces
• Dry Process
• The aggregate is heated to
170°c in
• mini hot mix plant.
• Heated aggregate.
• The shredded plastics waste is
added
• equal proportion.
• Adding shredded plastics.
[Link] Process
• Waste plastics by direct mixing
with
hot bitumen at 160°c
• Mechanical stirrer is needed.
• Addition of stabilizer & proper
mixing.
• Since the heat process requires a
lot of investment and bigger
plants,so not commonly used.
ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES
• Advantages : • Disadvantages :
• Stronger road with increase marshal • Toxic present in the
stability. co- mingled plastic
• Reduce the need of bitumen by about waste would start
leaching.
10%.
• In the presence of
• Reduce the cost around Rs 5000/km. chlorine will definitely
• Reduce penetration and ductility. naxious HCL gas.
• Better resistance towards rain water and • The components of
• water stagnation road once it has been
laid not inert.
• The maintenance cost of road is almost
nill.
• Long lasting and Durable.
PLASTICS ROAD IN INDIA :
• India has built 21000miles of roads using
waste plastics in [Link] has almost
33700km of plastic road till now which
means that every 1km road uses 1million of
plastics bag.
• The first City in India to globally adopt plastics
road technology was [Link]
municipal adopt this technology in a big way
commissioning 1000km of plastics road in the
year 2004.
• Since then many municipality across India
have experiment and implement this
technology such as Pune,Mumbai,Surat,
Indore,Delhi and Lucknow etc.
CONCLUSION :
1. Use of the innovative technology not only strengthened the road
construction but also increase the road life.
2. major role of plastics road is that it reduce huge amount of
plastics to construct the road and help to improve the
environment.
3. Plastics Road would be a boon for India’s hot and extremely humid
climate.
4. Plastics Road is Eco-friendly.
THANK YOU
