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Every day, the discard waste plastics and many other mineral wastes like quartz powder, stone dust, marble waste etc., are dumped in the earth surface. It may cause environmental pollution. Nowadays, many engineer and industries are investigating the possibilities of waste plastics and mineral waste in flexible pavement. An attempt has been made to use the plastic as aggregate coating in order to increase road performance and durability. Plastic wastes like low density polythene, polypropylene, polythene, Terephthalate are used. These waste plastics are cut into small pieces. Aggregate are heated to a certain temperature and the spread over the heated aggregate. Due to heating this plastic gets softened and forms a coating as layer over these aggregate. The result indicates that the 10% of plastic coated aggregate doesn’t disqualify the material and no negative influence on the quality asphalt mixture. Even-though quartz stone powder used as filler material in asphalt mixture because they fill voids and enhances the cohesive property. Quartz is a mineral, which composed of sio2 (silicon dioxide). It is the second most adopted mineral in earth continental crust. The durability of the asphalt pavement is related to the appropriate proposing of mineral materials. Quartz mineral materials are used to enhance the asphalt mix quality. Bituminous mixtures are basically composed of aggregate of different sizes, fillers and bitumen. Fillers consist of mineral grain most of which 2.75mm sieve. Quartz powder may be of naturally available materials when derived from the crushing if quartz rocks. Discard waste plastics, quartz stone powder and a type of asphalt binder on the properties of asphalt mixture were investigated in this project. The result indicates positive influence on the quality of asphalt mixture. We use discarded waste plastic and quartz stone powder in more innovative and contributing in order to reduce negative impact of waste on environmental.

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S.Elango M.E, K.Dineshkumar, V.Gowtham, M.Gowthami, & R.Hariharan. (2018). Beeline for making flexible pavement by using discarded plastic and quartz stone powder . International Journal of Intellectual Advancements and Research in Engineering Computations, 6(2), 2415–2421. Retrieved from https://ijiarec.com/ijiarec/article/view/827