The stabilization can be done by usage of plastic strips. Plastic consumption is increasing day by day due to rapid growth in population and urbanization, recycling of these plastics is very less compared to its production and a and a large quantity of plastic is dumped in to landfills as waste. In present work, this plastic was made in to strips mixed with black cotton soils was studied by carrying unconfined compression tests and California bearing ratio tests. The plastic strips were added in different proportions by dry weight (0.05%, 0.1%, 0.15% and 0.2%)of the soils. The results showed that there is appreciable increase in strength and CBR value for the black cotton soils by the addition of plastic strips. The proposed method can be used for small projects like implementing for construction of pavements for village roads. The thickness of pavement layer can be reduced by using waste plastic strips.
