Plastic Waste for Sustainable Asphalt Roads

Filippo Giustozzi is an expert in road and airport pavement materials and is currently serving as Associate Professor at RMIT University (Australia). He is the co-chair of AKP00(2) – Sustainable and Resilient Pavements at the Transportation Research Board of National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in the United States. He completed his second PhD at Virginia Tech University (United States) in 2012. He has participated in several major road and airport construction projects as a consultant since 2008. Dr. Giustozzi is the lead investigator for the national Austroads project APT6305 'Use of Road-grade Recycled Plastics for Sustainable Asphalt Pavements', approved by the Transport and Infrastructure Council that brings together Commonwealth, State, Territory, and New Zealand Ministers. He also collaborates with several national and international road contractors and bitumen suppliers on a variety of research and field projects, mainly around polymer-modified bitumen and recycled materials for road applications. At RMIT University, he leads the Intelligent Materials for Road and Airport Pavements research group. Sabzoi Nizamuddin is currently working as a Research Fellow in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at RMIT University (Australia). He received his PhD in 2019 from RMIT University. He was awarded the Research Excellence Award from RMIT University’s School of Engineering, based on the high quality and quantity of papers he published during his PhD. To date, he has been the author of more than 75 articles in peer-reviewed Scopus/SCI/ESCI-indexed journals, 5 book chapters for Elsevier and Springer, and has presented his findings at domestic and international conferences. Currently, he is a co-editor for 'Frontiers in Energy Research' and the 'International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health'.

• SECTION 1: Waste plastics—problems and opportunities1. Polymers and plastics: Types, properties, and manufacturing2. Thermo-mechanical, rheological, and chemical properties of recycled plastics3. "Road-grade" recycled plastics: A critical discussionSECTION 2: Waste plastics' effect on bitumen performance4. Rheological performance of soft and rigid waste plastic-modified bitumen and mastics5. Rheological evaluation of PE waste-modified bitumen with particular emphasis on rutting resistance6. Rutting of waste plastic-modified bitumenSECTION 3: Waste plastics' effect on asphalt performance7. Volumetric properties, workability, and mechanical performance of waste plastic-modified asphalt mixtures8. Fatigue resistance of waste plastic-modified asphaltSECTION 4: Combination of waste plastics with other road materials9. The role of new compatibilizers in hybrid combinations of waste plastics and waste vehicle tyres crumb rubber-modified bitumen10. Hybrid combination of waste plastics and graphene for high-performance sustainable roads11. Influence of compatibilizers on the storage stability of hybrid polymer-modified bitumenSECTION 5: Potential environmental issues of waste plastics in roads12. Fuming and emissions of waste plastics in bitumen at high temperature13. Road dust-associated microplastics from vehicle traffics and weatheringSECTION 6: Life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno-economic analysis of waste plastics in roads14. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste plastics in road pavementd: Theoretical modeling15. Environmental product declarations (EPDs)/product category rules (PCRs) of waste plastics and recycled materials in roadsSECTION 7: Case studies16. Application of plastic-modified asphalt for the reconstruction of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, Italy17. Sustainable alternatives for the reuse of plastic waste in asphalt mixtures: From the laboratory to the field