The effect of paving block from plastic waste material in the urban drainage: Study case in residential areas

¹ Bandung Institute of Technology, Water Resource Engineering and Management Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, West Java Province, 40132, Indonesia
² Bandung Institute of Technology, Water Resources Engineering Research Group, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, West Java Province, 40132, Indonesia
³ Bandung Institute of Technology, Magister Study Program of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, West Java Province, 40132, Indonesia
⁴ Bandung Institute of Technology, Construction Engineering and Management Research Group, Civil Engineering Study Program, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, West Java Province, 40132, Indonesia
⁵ Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Perak, Malaysia
⁶ Singaperbangsa Karawang University, Industrial Engineering Study Program, Karawang, Indonesia
⁷ Gadjah Mada University, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: nugrohoeka@itb.ac.id

Abstract

Large expanses of green, open land are frequently converted as a result of population growth and quick development. This phenomenon causes the decreasing of water infiltration area which has an impact on increasing runoff coefficient. In the urban drainage problem, paving blocks are often used as road pavement construction materials to reduce surface runoff. The aim of this research is to study the characteristic of flow in the paving block made from plastic waste material. The research conducted in the laboratory testing utilizing a rainfall simulator by several variations in slope of 0% to 15%. The findings indicate that paving blocks made from plastic waste have less runoff coefficient than asphalt and/or concrete pavement. There is a correlation between the slope of the land and the runoff coefficient value which the runoff coefficient value increasing as the slope of the land increases. That finding is then applied in urban drainage problem located in the Cipamokolan Village region in Bandung City with the help of SWMM program for drainage calculation. As a result, the runoff discharge is decreasing by implementing the paving block made from plastic waste.