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WASTE MANAGEMENT

WASTE MATERIAL

INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURAL / INFRASTRUCTURE MUNICIPAL
WASTE BIO WASTE
(SLAG, FOUNDRY (RICE STRAW, WASTE WASTE
(PLASTIC,
SAND, FLY ASH PINE RESIN, (C&D, RAP, BRICK E-WASTE ETC)
WASTE ETC)
ETC) RUBBER OIL ETC)

AGGREGATE, BINDER AGGREGATE, AGGREGATE,
SOIL AND FILLER SOIL SOIL
REPLACEMENT REPLACEMENT REPLACEMENT REPLACEMENT

Agriculture/Bio construction. These waste and materials, is being
materials provide a renewable
Waste alternative to traditional recycled and integrated
into construction materials
Agricultural waste resources, reducing reducing the burden on
materials like rice straw, pine dependency on fossil fuels landfills and resource
needles, and bio bitumen and contributing to a more extraction. MSW, when
offer innovative solutions for sustainable construction properly processed, can be
sustainable road construction. industry. utilized as a filler material
Rice straw, typically burned in road construction, turning
as a disposal method, can be Municipal Waste waste into a valuable
processed into bio bitumen, resource. This approach
an eco-friendly binder Plastic waste, which poses
that replaces conventional a significant environmental aligns with the principles
bitumen in asphalt mixes. challenge, can be used to of sustainable development
Pine needles, another form of enhance the flexibility and by addressing urban waste
agricultural residue, are being durability of bitumen in management challenges
explored for their potential in asphalt layers. E-waste, while promoting the reuse of
composite materials for road containing valuable metals materials.

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