The damage plastic is causing the environment is one of the biggest challenges the planet deals with today.
We use plastic for a lot of reasons, including appliance, storing food, car part, water bottles, etc.
You rarely come across glass soda bottles nowadays. While the plastics have enabled many advancements in society, it has an equally detrimental impact on the environment.
Along with being harmful to humans, it poses a grave threat to plants and animals as well. Environmental activists are urging people across the world to minimize their use of plastic.
Researchers are studying how plastic can be substituted without impacting the quality of life. However, there has not been any constructive and long-lasting solution.
However, this company in the United Kingdom has come up with a smart approach to recycling old plastic bottles to improve its road quality.
It will not only be better than asphalt, but the entire process will also cost way less as opposed to the conventional form of road-making. After using, plastics are just thrown away, and they become a part of a landfill, harming the environment. So why not put it to better use?
MacRebur has come up with a method to convert old plastic bottles into renewable asphalt. Along with being environmentally friendly, it is also a more durable solution in comparison to asphalt.
The company CEO Toby McCartney came up with this idea when he was in Southern India, working with a charity. During his stay, he thought, why would the landfill pickers collect old plastic. He later found that they melt the plastic to fill potholes on the road.
This is where the company began to look at the new approach, which would upgrade asphalt and provide more long-lasting material. Additionally, this would also help in reducing the carbon footprint.
The upgraded asphalt is an amalgamation of asphalt concrete formula and granulated plastic waste. And, not all plastics can be used to make the road. You need plastics that have been considered waste and are hard to recycle like black plastic.
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