Soil Stabilization Using Waste Plastic Bottles Fibers: A Review Paper

Abstract

Abstract Nowadays plastic has a major role in our life use, but the increased usage of it led to a serious challenge which is plastic waste. Plastic waste is increasing day by day and which led to many bad disposal methods like burning and due to that there are many environmental and pollution problems. Therefore, there is a need to seek for safe and effective disposal methods to protect our plant and next generations’ future. One of the effective and safe solutions is using plastic waste in civil engineering construction as this solution is eco-friendly where it will provide a safe disposal as well as in engineering there is always a seek for economical materials and as plastic waste is almost for free. In addition, adding these materials may improve the properties of the construction materials. This article reviews all the published trials of using waste plastic bottles fibers as soil improvement material to examine the effectiveness of using this material as a reinforcing material in improving soil properties. As well as to provide a data base of information regarding the best dimensions and percentages. After reviewing the literature, it was found that waste plastic bottles can effectively be used as a reinforcing material and it is an eco-friendly solution. But the best benefit is it really economical as this solution has showed good improvement in soil properties this can reduce the thickness of the pavement in highways construction as well as it provided a good stabilization method rather than the other expensive methods. This material also can solve the problem of time as the other stabilization take much time which delay the construction process. Also, it was found that the addition of (0-5) % with higher aspect ratios give the optimum results.