Test of Clay Soil Reinforcement Model Using Plastic Bottle Waste

The construction of infrastructure on land with low bearing capacity results in large settlements and lateral movements. Various methods have been developed to overcome these problems, especially methods that utilize waste. Therefore, the author wants to determine the effect of using woven plastic bottle waste on soil with low bearing capacity using an experimental research method. Testing is carried out by observing the deformation that occurs in soft soil without reinforcement and reinforced using woven plastic bottles layer 1 and layer 2.From the results of the deformation test that occurred in the unreinforced soil with a load of 4 kN was 45.5 mm, while the reinforced using woven plastic bottles layer 1 and layer 2 with the same load of 4 kN was 41.60 mm and 38.20 mm, so it can be concluded that the soil reinforced with woven plastic bottles layer 1 experienced an increase in strength of 9.38% and for woven layer 2 by 19.11% against the vertical deformation that occurred. Judging from the deformation pattern that occurred, the results of this modeling are included in the local shear failure pattern.