• Akash Madhusudan Sonwalkar
• Dr. Ishfaq Rashid Sheikh

Worldwide, sustainability is an important need of the hour in the construction industry and towards this end use of waste material in road construction is being increasingly encouraged so as to reduce environmental impact. In the highway infrastructure, a large number of originate materials and technologies have been invented to determine their suitability for the design, construction and maintenance of the pavements. Plastics and rubbers are one of them. Now-a-days Plastic is everywhere in today’s lifestyle. The disposal of plastic wastes is a great problem. These are non-biodegradable product due to which these materials pose environmental pollution and problems like breast cancer, reproductive problems in humans and animals, genital abnormalities and even a decline in human sperm count and quality. In recent years, applications of plastic wastes have been considered in road construction with great interest in many developing countries. The use of these materials in road making is based on technical, economic, and ecological criteria. Several million metric tons plastic wastes are produced in India every year. If these materials can be suitably utilized in highway road construction, the pollution and disposal problems may be partly reduced. Keeping in mind the need for bulk use of these wastes in India, it was thought expedient to test these materials and to develop specifications to enhance the use of plastic wastes in road making, in which higher economic returns may be possible. The possible use of these materials should be developed for construction of low-volume roads in different parts of our country. A review of various plastic wastes for use in the construction of roads has been discussed in this paper.

Plastic waste Binder, Bitumen, Mix design, Marshall Stability, Macadam

"REPLACEMENT OF BITUMEN WITH WASTE THERMOPLASTIC & CRUMB RUBBER", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.d337-d346, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206343.pdf

"REPLACEMENT OF BITUMEN WITH WASTE THERMOPLASTIC & CRUMB RUBBER", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppd337-d346, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206343.pdf