Every year, around 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide. Over one million bags are being haphazardly disposed every minute and they are damaging our environment. Yet, precious little has been done to recycle, re-use and disposal of non biodegradable plastic waste. Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle and therefore mostly end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photo degrade. As a result, several state governments including Delhi had put a ban on the use of plastic bags. But if we are concerned about energy and its conservation, plastic bags is the best option for packaging. We can manage plastic waste, consisting of carry bags, cups and other packing containers by using it for road construction after their disposal. Use of plastic bags waste in road construction is a potential field for the use and scientifically disposal of these industrial waste polymers into roads instead of banning their use or resorting to non-environment friendly methods like burning, landfills etc. The main focus of this paper is to review and discuss plastic as packaging material and the feasibility and hurdles of incorporating postconsumer plastic waste in urban and rural areas. Already developed technologies on utilization of waste plastic for construction of roads in four metros (Bangaluru, Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta) are the basis of implementing these technologies in urban and rural areas. Plastic modified bituminous road surfacing will be first of its kind in Haryana state. Laboratory test results show the improvement in engineering properties like Marshall stability, retained stability and indirect tensile strength of modified bituminous mixes as compared to unmodified bituminous mixes irrespective to the three different approach adopted as elaborated in the on-going text. The findings elaborated in this paper can also serve as the base for the use of other wastes from the industry in road technology on which the research is already in progress.
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