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Improvement of Black Cotton Soil Using Waste Plastic Bottle Strips


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Stabilization of soil can be done in various ways such as mechanical stabilization, chemical stabilization, and by using other improvement techniques. Use and throw plastic becomes a serious issue as it develops man made hazards. One example is that of Mumbai city floods and waste products. The other issue is that plastic lasts in the environment for hundreds of years, hence pollution remains a problem. Therefore, in the present study, stabilization of soil is done by using locally available plastic waste bottles. These are used in the form of strips by cutting the bottles into strips of six of dimensions 5 mm X 7 mm. Soil samples were collected from Dharwad, Karnataka and their engineering and indexed properties were tested. The soil type used in this project is black cotton soil and it is also known as expansive soil. Testing was done with different plastic waste contents like 0% (without plastic), 2%, 3%, and 5% of weight of dry soil. The main objective of this study was improving properties of soil in an economical way, reducing environmental pollution, and minimizing the problems of plastic waste disposal.

Keywords

Black cotton soil, plastic waste, shear strength, stabilization.

Manuscript Received : April 7, 2022 ; Revised : April 26, 2022 ; Accepted : May 2, 2022. Date of Publication : June 5, 2022.

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Barnali Ghosh
Associate Professor, East Point College of Engineering and Technology, Jnana Prabha, Virgo Nagar Post - 560 049, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Abstract


Stabilization of soil can be done in various ways such as mechanical stabilization, chemical stabilization, and by using other improvement techniques. Use and throw plastic becomes a serious issue as it develops man made hazards. One example is that of Mumbai city floods and waste products. The other issue is that plastic lasts in the environment for hundreds of years, hence pollution remains a problem. Therefore, in the present study, stabilization of soil is done by using locally available plastic waste bottles. These are used in the form of strips by cutting the bottles into strips of six of dimensions 5 mm X 7 mm. Soil samples were collected from Dharwad, Karnataka and their engineering and indexed properties were tested. The soil type used in this project is black cotton soil and it is also known as expansive soil. Testing was done with different plastic waste contents like 0% (without plastic), 2%, 3%, and 5% of weight of dry soil. The main objective of this study was improving properties of soil in an economical way, reducing environmental pollution, and minimizing the problems of plastic waste disposal.

Keywords


Black cotton soil, plastic waste, shear strength, stabilization.

Manuscript Received : April 7, 2022 ; Revised : April 26, 2022 ; Accepted : May 2, 2022. Date of Publication : June 5, 2022.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17010/ijce%2F2022%2Fv5i1%2F170368