EFFECT OF NATURAL RUBBER ON THE PROPERTIES OF BITUMEN AND BITUMINIOUS MIXES

In India the remnants of products of natural rubber latex are stockpiled every year often uncontrollable causing sever environmental and other socioeconomic negative impacts. The environmental solid waste like rubber, swim caps, g loves etc can be recycled in a better way so that it is helpful for the future. Many studies have bee n done to find other alternative material to use as modifiers in bitumen mixes on the improvement of it s properties and highway quality. Studies still today mainly focused on mechanical and physical characteristics of rubberized mixtures in which balloon rubber is used either as alternative to nat ural aggregates or as additive.