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A newly built highway in Oroville, California, looks no different from ordinary highways, but it is the first highway in the United States to be paved with recycled plastic, a three-lane highway , about 150,000 waste plastic bottles are used every mile (equivalent to 1.
6 kilometers)
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According to reports, the road pavement using waste plastics has become stronger
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The company's process chemically recycles PET, a material commonly used in plastic bottles and other single-use packaging, back into its original polymer chain form
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To repair the road, workers need to use bulldozing equipment to grind the top layer of the road, and then cover the road with recycled plastic
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The advantage of using waste plastics for paving is that it avoids construction trucks entering and leaving the construction site, thereby reducing emissions in the logistics process and speeding up construction
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The company is also working with Los Angeles to pilot plastic roads, and with CalTrans, the state agency of transportation, will soon roll out plastic roads in other parts of California
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UK, India, Netherlands also promote plastic roads
UK, India, Netherlands also promote plastic roadsIn addition to California, many countries and regions have also started waste plastic paving actions to improve the utilization of waste plastics, reduce waste plastic pollution, and achieve the goal of reducing emissions
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UK: 240,000 plastic bags for 3,000 square meters of road construction
UK: 240,000 plastic bags for 3,000 square meters of road constructionCarlisle, the capital of Cumbria, England, will become the first city in the UK to use waste plastic to build a road
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Asphalt business MacRebur is working with Cumbria County Council to pave the road using about 240,000 single-use plastic bags that would otherwise go into landfills
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These waste plastic bags are processed and mixed with asphalt to resurface the road
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According to MacReburi, asphalt mixed with plastic will make roads more durable and reduce road cracks and potholes
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Plastics also replace some of the asphalt components in asphalt, reducing the use of fossil fuels and reducing emissions
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Cumbria has been awarded £1.
6 million to test new technologies on the road under an innovative initiative called ADEPT SMART Places Live Labs
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Lowther Street road redevelopment will cost around £150,000
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Toby McCartney, chief executive of MacRebur, said a nationwide rollout of waste plastic roads would help to truly reduce the carbon footprint of road construction
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India: Build 100,000 kilometers of roads with waste plastic
India: Build 100,000 kilometers of roads with waste plasticAccording to Indian media Hindustan, the 270-kilometer Jammu Kashmir National Highway is made of waste plastics
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In the two-kilometer section of the Delhi-Meerut highway, about 1.
6 tons of plastic waste is used
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The media revealed that the Indian government insists on using waste plastics in road construction to rationally utilize waste plastics that would not otherwise be recycled
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So far, 100,000 kilometers of roads have been built with waste plastics
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The waste plastic will also be used to build the road connecting Dhaula Kuan and Delhi Airport
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The construction of each kilometer of road requires a mixture of 9 tons of asphalt and 1 ton of plastic waste, which means that one ton of asphalt can be saved per kilometer of road, costing about 30,000 rupees (2,785 yuan)
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Plastic roads have a plastic content of 6 to 8 percent, while asphalt content is 92 to 94 percent
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Indian Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced the use of plastic waste in road construction back in 2016
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Since then, plastic waste has been used to build 100,000 kilometers of roads in 11 states
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That figure is said to double in the current financial year
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India's Municipal Corporation of Gulgram (MCG) used plastic waste in road construction for the first time in 2018, and now it is more mandatory , while Assam started using waste this year
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India produces at least 25,940 tonnes of waste plastic every day, the weight of which is equivalent to about 4,300 elephants
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About 60 percent of it is recycled, according to the Union Environment Ministry
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The rest are dumped in landfills or drains, or end up in the ocean as microplastics, or incinerated causing air pollution
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In the absence of a proper waste management system, the plastics that are recycled are often dirty plastics, making the recycling process water-intensive and expensive
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About 60 percent of it is recycled, according to the Union Environment Ministry
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The rest are dumped in landfills or drains, or end up in the ocean as microplastics, or incinerated causing air pollution
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In the absence of a proper waste management system, the plastics that are recycled are often dirty plastics, making the recycling process water-intensive and expensive
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Dutch plastic road modules to enter industrial mass production
Dutch plastic road modules to go into industrial mass production Dutch plastic road modules to go into industrial mass productionAccording to PlasticRoad, a company specializing in the manufacture of plastic road modules, the world's first plastic-surfaced bicycle lane in the Netherlands has recorded more than 1 million rides for the first time
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PlasticRoad is a project company of the Dutch road construction and asphalt manufacturer KWS
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KWS is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and is a subsidiary of Royal VolkerWessels
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PlasticRoad, established by VolkerWessels, plastic piping systems Wavin and global integrated energy producer and supplier Total, produces PlasticRoad plastic road modules made from recycled plastic waste
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KWS is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and is a subsidiary of Royal VolkerWessels
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PlasticRoad, established by VolkerWessels, plastic piping systems Wavin and global integrated energy producer and supplier Total, produces PlasticRoad plastic road modules made from recycled plastic waste
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PlasticRoad first transports the plastic waste to the factory, crushes it, and then presses it into prefabricated panels with the same specifications through professional technology
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When building a road, you only need to lay the roadbed, and you can connect plastic formwork piece by piece to form a road just like putting together Lego blocks
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When building a road, you only need to lay the roadbed, and you can connect plastic formwork piece by piece to form a road just like putting together Lego blocks
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After a year and a half of testing and developing it into a design suitable for industrial production, the technology is said to be ready to launch in the market, with PlasticRoad set to begin industrial production in the first quarter of 2021
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PlasticRoad has launched a pilot project on two 30m cycle lanes in the Netherlands, and the results have shown that waste plastic can be used to create prefabricated road modules
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Each pilot project used about 1,000 kilograms of recycled plastic, the equivalent of 218,000 plastic cups
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PlasticRoad's pilot project can achieve 50 to 70 percent emissions reductions compared to conventional bike paths made of asphalt or concrete slabs, the company claims
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Each pilot project used about 1,000 kilograms of recycled plastic, the equivalent of 218,000 plastic cups
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PlasticRoad's pilot project can achieve 50 to 70 percent emissions reductions compared to conventional bike paths made of asphalt or concrete slabs, the company claims
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According to reports, in the actual project, the PlasticRoad product will be more durable than the test product, and the strength is 2.
5 times that of the test version
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This makes PlasticRoad suitable for applications such as parking lots, and the company says it is preparing a first pilot project for this specific application
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The company also says it's a step toward bringing PlasticRoad to use in cars and other road traffic
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5 times that of the test version
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This makes PlasticRoad suitable for applications such as parking lots, and the company says it is preparing a first pilot project for this specific application
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The company also says it's a step toward bringing PlasticRoad to use in cars and other road traffic
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Each piece of plastic road formwork is a hollow design, which can be laid with cables, pipes and sensors to facilitate power transmission
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In terms of drainage, a road module with strong water storage and drainage performance has been designed
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Rainwater is transferred to the hollow layer through the voids between the plastic materials, and then discharged through the hollow layer
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The company said it will first roll out plastic road modules in the Netherlands and surrounding countries, before expanding to other markets around the world
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