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Littering of plastic wastes, which are generally in the form of non-biodegradable plastic beverage, containers, plastic bags, cups, plates, and various other luxurious items, is mainly contributing in environmental deterioration due to improper and inessential utilization of plastic products as a luxurious items by entire humanity. Keeping in view...
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... Wet and dry process of plastic road construction. Sources include Gill and Abid (2019); Willis, Yin, and Moraes (2020); and the IRC (2013) specifications. 33 Table 4. Results of sample engineering performance studies. ...
... This raw material was then mixed with hot bitumen [12][11]. 2. Wet process method: In this method plastic waste is collected and sorted according to their thickness [13]. Cut them to small pieces as possible. ...
Plastic is found in abundance on earth due to its cheap capital cost and large-scale availability. Plastic waste is a mean to degrade our environment as it is also a source of many toxic gasses and is non-biodegradable. There must be some way to eliminate such a threat to our surroundings. The use of Low-density polyethylene such as bottles, polythene bags, and much more as a replacement in bitumen blend provides various benefits like an increase in resistance to deformation, increase in durability, strength, reduction in seepage, mitigating of pollution, and gainful for waste disposal.
Plastic is life-changing material, the qualities that make it useful have created a global waste challenge due to poor waste management. Only 15% of plastic waste is recycled worldwide and few companies contribute to plastic recycling process due to high energy consumption. Amazia Vision Enterprise Private Limited a Satara-based industry that recycles plastic and produces products in granules.
The study presented investigates the plastic waste recycling process, its potential in utilities to save energy and optimize the cost. A detailed analysis of the process has been carried out to find the scope for conservation of various utilities used at each stage of the operation. Theoretical solutions have been proposed to conserve energy, reduction in waste generated, and thus minimizing cost of operation.
It is intended to optimize the process for better throughput with minimum waste generation after recycling plastic waste.
As plastic is non-biodegradable in nature, it remains in environment for several years and disposing plastic waste at landfill are unsafe since toxic chemicals leach out into the soil, underground water and pollute the water bodies. Therefore, plastic waste disposal is the major problem for the civic authorities. Plastic products have become an integral part in our daily life as a basic need. It produced on a massive scale worldwide and its production crosses the 150 million Tonnes per year globally. In India approximately 8 million Tonnes plastic products are consumed every year (2008) which was
expected to raise 12 million tones by 2021. Its broad range of application is in packaging films, wrapping materials, shopping and garbage bags, fluid containers, clothing, toys, household and industrial products, and building materials. It is a fact that plastics will never degrade and remains on landscape for several years. The recycled plastics are more harmful to the environment than the virgin products due to mixing of color, additives, stabilizers, flame retardants etc. Further, the recycling of a virgin plastic material can be done 2-3 time only, because, after every recycling, the strength of plastic material is reduced due to thermal degradation. It is to mention that no authentic
estimation is available on total generation of plastic waste in the country however, considering 70% of total plastic consumption is discarded as waste, thus approximately 5.6 million tons per annum (TPA) of plastic waste is generated in country, which is about 15342 tons per day (TPD).
