plastic road Deatiles

1. PLASTIC ROADS
Presented by Ganta kalyan
(18221A0113)

2. Need of change
Plastic waste
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3. Need of change
EARTH

4. Need of change
Environment
Effecting our :
Health Life

5. It’s time to think:
INNOVATIVE
solutions
TO
Tackle
Plastic
waste

6. Converting plastic waste into an
opportunity ------ Plastic roads

7. What Are Plastic Roads?
● The roads constructed using waste
plastic popularly known as “PLASTIC
ROADS”
● Plastic Roads are found to perform better
compared to these constructed with
conventional bitumen and Asphalt
Plastic Roads are generally of two
kinds: used with
1. Bitumen mix
1. Asphalt mix (not used in india)

9. Types of plastics:
&
Thermosetting
plastic
Thermoplastic

10. Thermosetting
plastic
Shaped once

11. Thermoplastic
Recycle

13. Who Invented Plastic Roads?
● The plastic road was invented by
Rajagopalan Vasudevan, an Indian
scientist, who was born in Tamil Nadu.
● Rajagopalan Vasudevan has mainly
worked in waste management and is
currently a professor at Thiagarajar
College of Engineering.
● Rajagopalan Vasudevan developed this
innovative method of construction of
roads using plastic waste which is
better, more durable and very cost-
effective than regular asphalt roads.
● Rajagopalan Vasudevan was awarded
Padma Shri for this innovative
method of road construction.

14. Basic processes:
1. Segregation
1. Cleaning process
1. Shredding process
1. Collection process

19. Field Trials:
1. Dry process (IRC:SP:98-2013)
1. Wet process(complex)

20. Dry Process:
Aggregates
165 °C
Hot
Aggregates
Polycoated
Polymer
Bitumen
mixture
Road Laying
Waste
Plastic
Hot
bitumen
160°C
110°-120°C

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30. Advantages:
● Construction of Plastic road makes the roads stronger with increased Marshall Stability
value.
● Construction of Plastic road gives roads better protection from rain water and prevents
water stagnation.
● While construction of Plastic roads no stripping and potholes are needed.
● Plastic roads have increased binding and better bonding of the mixture components than
regular asphalt roads.
● Plastic Roads have a reduction in pores of the aggregates, which leads to less rutting and
ravelling.
● Plastic Roads have no effect of radiation like UV.

31. Disadvantages:
● The toxics present in the plastic wastes used in Plastic road
construction would start leaching, which creates difficulty while
cleaning.
● During the road laying process the mixture of asphalt and plastic
will release noxious HCL gas in the presence of chlorine from the
surrounding.
● After the laying of the Plastic road it is often found that the first rain
will result in leaching, as the plastics will form a sticky layer over
the surface of the road.
● The components of the Plastic road once it has been laid cannot
be inert.
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32. Plastic Roads in India:
● India has built 21,000 miles of roads using waste
plastic in December 2019. India has almost
33,700 km of plastic roads till now which means
that every 1 km road uses 1 million plastic bags.
● The first city in India to globally adapt Plastic road
technology was Chennai. Chennai municipality
adapted this technology in a big way by
commissioning 1000 km of Plastic roads in the
year 2004.
● Since then many municipalities across India have
experimented and implemented this technology
such as Pune, Mumbai, Surat, Indore, Delhi,
Lucknow, etc.
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