Experimental characteristic of PET plastic bottle waste addition on asphalt concrete wearing course compound

Abstract

Optimization of bottle plastic waste with Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) type as additional material for asphalt can be performed by running a test on modified plastic bottle waste for further usage as the asphalt compound. Besides, Indonesia is placed second in the world rank for producing plastic waste into the sea so that waste domestication becomes a necessity to reduce the increasing amount of waste. Moreover, inserting plastic bottle waste is to get the durability of pavement structure in case of deformation tolerance in the traffic load. The study is oriented to the plastic bottle waste called Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). The study utilizes the wet process method as asphalt additional material. The present study is executed on the Asphalt Concrete Wearing Course compound by using 60/70 asphalt pen which is modified with PET plastic bottle waste by 0%, 3%, 6%, 9% and 12% levels. The study aims to investigate the Marshall parameter of asphalt concrete characteristics with various asphalt PET modifications. The result of the Marshall parameter shows that asphalt optimum level (AOL) for asphalt 0 % is about 5.9, PET asphalt of 3%, 6%, 9%, and 12% is about 5.95. Based on the analysis, the optimum level of asphalt concrete compounded with 9% PET has improved stability value of 33% between the usage of optimum modified asphalt and asphalt pen by 60/70.

Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate as Reinforcement Additive of Asphalt Mixture for Pavement Application

“…Consequently, waste plastics made from PET remain stable for a long time and become a major environmental issue, especially for the marine ecosystem (Webb et al 2012). At present, research studies suggest an optimum PET content in asphalt mixture within the range of 6-12% (Ahmad et al 2017;Ahmadinia et al 2011;El-Naga and Ragab 2019;Fikri et al 2020).…”