• KANHAIYA KUMAR
• Dr Shubha Agarwal

The aim of my investigation is to improve the engineering properties of black cotton soil/weak soil, which is one of the major soil deposit of India. Black cotton soil is a type of soil with poor share strength and high swelling & shrinking properties. By stabilization using industrial wastes red-mud and waste polythene we will make soil capable of caring load, increase the strength and baring capacity of the black cotton soil/weak soil. Red-mud is a industrial wastes, which is produced by the aluminum industries about 100 million ton’s /year globally. It create a major environmental problems when it is dumped in open space. Polythene is one of the most dangerous environmental problem, there is only option to save our environment from polythene stop production. & re-use of polythene is to be done in large scale. In this investigation red-mud is used for enhancing baring capacity and polythene is used for better compressive strength. Black cotton soil sample was mixed with 10%, 15% and 20% of red mud and blended with polythene by 0.2%, 0.3% and 0.5% for every red-mud mix. Result was observed optimum for soaked CBR value at 20% of red-mud & 0.2% of polythene when mixed with black cotton soil sample.

Black cotton soil, red-mud, polythene, soil stabilization & environment safety.

"AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON NATURAL SOIL STABLIZED WITH RED-MUD & RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED POLYTHENE.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.900-905, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I09.pdf

"AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON NATURAL SOIL STABLIZED WITH RED-MUD & RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED POLYTHENE.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp900-905, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I09.pdf