Pervious concrete is a special concrete and has gained popularity due to its pioneering method to control, manage, and handle storm water runoff is widely used in many applications such as parking lots, pavements, and green roofs, due to its ability to mitigate the urban heat island effect and reduce stormwater runoff. It is a family of different materials such as cement, coarse & fine aggregate and admixtures. Since use of cement and natural aggregates for production of concrete are considered having negative environmental and cost effects, hence to control these different researchers are working on the utilization of waste materials as their replacement. This paper gives a detailed review about the previous finding of use of wastes such as flyash, ground granulated blast steel slag (GGBSS), rice husk, bottom ash, red mud, recycled aggregates, crump rubber etc. as a replacement in production and change in the properties of pervious concrete. It also leads towards use of pervious concrete in construction industry for building environment friendly, cost effective, self- cleansing and durable structures.