USE OF PET (POLY ETHYLENE TERAPHTALATE) IN BITUMINOUS PAVEMENT

Over the years, plastics have become the preferred packaging material by virtue of their superiority over other conventional materials. With the increasing use ofplastic as packaging material, post- consumer plastic wastes became an increasingly serious environmental issue.So,there is an immediate need for adoption of environment friendly technologies such as economic recycling, development of biodegradable plastics, conversion of plastic wastes into value added products and fuel, use of plastic wastes for road construction, recycling of PET bottles into fibers or bottle to bottle technologies etc. In this paper, an attempt was made to summarise the present scenario of plastics waste management vis-à-vis various disposal techniques, which need to be expeditiously taken-up with an eye oninnovative solutions.