Posted on 11/28/2019 8:38:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The first-ever highway partially made of reclaimed plastic was inaugurated in Mexico on Nov. 13.
The 2.5-mile stretch of highway in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico used 1.7 tons of recycled plastic, or the equivalent of 425,000 plastic packaging units, according to Dow Plastics Technology Mexico.
"The advantage of using recycled plastic products is that they can be used on all types of highways, not only in high-performance products, which can extend the life span of any paved road," Paula Sans, Dow Mexico's director of packaging and specialty plastics, said in a release.
The newly paved stretch of highway connects the cities of Irapuato and Cuerámaro. The area is home to dozens of foreign and domestic factories, including automakers General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) and food giant General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS).
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Mexican engineer: wait, what? It does what? Ay, caramba
Is it going to stop pot holes? Better tell Memphis to get the formula and use it, Pot Hole city.
Yup.
Kalifornians won’t be allowed to drive or walk on it! Evil plastic stuff, ya know!
Unused plastic straws thrown away after the ban in the Socialist Republic of Kalifornia!
[[I wonder how long that’s gonna last.]]
Probably like many insight made out of plastic- not very well
Asphalt is @ 5% of the road material, so processed plastic mixed with the asphalt could make up a fair percent of the total.
This could be good now that the Chicoms don’t want our plastic waste anymore.
1.7 tons of plastic doesn’t seem lot a lot of plastic for 2.5 miles of highway.
How do you recycle that ? LOL
how about just use less and less plastic?......
Asphalt deforms too — which is better than cracking. They are able to reuse old asphalt, by adding the recycled plastic. It gets rid of plastic, greatly reduces asphalt waste, saves money, and results in a better road surface. A win all around. It just looks like good engineering to me.
RIght-clock on the image and select "Search Image on Google"
Hundreds of results come up where this photo was posted in other articles, some from a year ago.
Stock photo.
So, it’s really asphalt concrete with a waste plastic additive
AFAIK, yes. Also, AFAIK, this is an American innovation. Expect to see highway departments everywhere field testing it. If this works, it’ll be a game changer. Another case of engineers solving problems — while activists only agitate for bans. Perhaps now, they’ll lay off our straws and bottles.
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