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Soil stabilisation is the process by which strength properties of soil can be improved with the use of adding some materials like Lime, NaOH, polypropylene etc. There is a rapid increase in waste quantity of plastic fiber materials, these waste plastic fiber materials are generally dumped or thrown, which may deteriorate the ecology and environment, because these are non-biodegradable fiber materials. Among these, one of the waste fiber materials are polypropylene fiber materials. In this present work polypropylene fiber has been used as ingredients for soil stabilization. The soil has been replaced by the polypropylene fiber in certain percentages and tests have been performed. The soil was replaced with varying proportions of polypropylene fiber to find out the optimum quantity of polypropylene fiber. From the experimental results, it has been found that various properties of the soil replaced with 1.0% of polypropylene fiber by weight of soil gives optimum results. The value of Unconfined Compressive Strength has increased from 3.24 kg/cm2 to 7.41 kg/cm2 which make clear that it can be used to bear higher loads. The value of MDD has also been increased but percentage of increment is low.