{"id":453959,"date":"2021-12-03T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T06:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=453959"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:59:19","slug":"karnataka-pollution-board-tells-pwd-to-mandatorily-use-plastic-waste-in-road-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/karnataka-pollution-board-tells-pwd-to-mandatorily-use-plastic-waste-in-road-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka Pollution Board tells PWD to mandatorily use plastic waste in road construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has made it mandatory for road construction agencies in Karnataka to use the plastic waste in bituminous constructions. <\/p>\n<p>In a direction issued on Thursday, KSPCB chairman Shanta Thimmaiah told the Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project (KSHIP), Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development LImited (KRIDL) and the state Public Works Department (PWD) to &#8220;mandatorily use waste plastics&#8221; as per the Indian Road Congress guidelines. <\/p>\n<p>The KPSCB said &#8220;studies&#8221; have revealed that waste plastics have great potential for use in the bituminous construction as its addition in small doses of &#8220;about 5-10 per cent, by weight of bitumen&#8221; helps in improving the stability and strength of the bituminous mix, leading to improved longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has made it mandatory for road construction agencies in Karnataka to use the plastic waste in bituminous constructions. In a direction issued on Thursday, KSPCB chairman Shanta Thimmaiah told the Karnataka State Highways Improvement Project (KSHIP), Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development LImited (KRIDL) and the state Public Works Department (PWD) to &#8220;mandatorily use waste plastics&#8221; as per the Indian Road Congress guidelines. The KPSCB said &#8220;studies&#8221; have revealed that waste plastics have great potential for use in the bituminous construction as its addition in small doses of &#8220;about 5-10 per cent, by weight of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}