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Can plastic roads help save the planet? BBC News
Repurposing
A company in Scotland has developed a process to transform specific plastic waste into pellets, which can be used to replace bitumen in any conventional asphalt production center for road paving. The paving represents not only a practical solution to waste, but plastic paving is also more economical, longer lasting….
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Plastic Waste for Sustainable Roads
Repurposing
India’s uses a mixture of thermoplastics (LDPE, HDPE, PET and Polyurethane) with bitumen to pave roads to be stronger and water resistant. A two lane road uses 2 tonnes of waste plastic per kilometer.