Soil Properties Modification Using PET waste—An Experimental Study

In recent years, change in lifestyle mainly due to overuse of different products for personal use, cleaning, packaging, etc., which majority made from the various types of plastics like PET, HDPE and LDPE affected the living organism on the planet earth directly or indirectly. Currently, entire world is finding tangible solution to minimize the use of plastic materials and also recycling or reuse of such materials. This paper presents the reuse of the plastic waste for modification of properties of clayey soil. In this study, PET types of plastic were utilized to analyse the properties of soil. Used plastic water bottles were collected and converted in to form of stripes. Series of experiments were conducted with different percentage of PET waste (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, and 1%) and aspect ratio (2 and 4). The observation of the study shows the significant change in behaviour of clayey soil with inclusion of PET type of waste. This methodology can be use potentially for the construction of pavements having bed subgrade soil.