[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Slightly off-topic to the Global Warming PING list.*

*but who knows? Mebbe recycling plastic will lover plant food emissions.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

DANG!

[PTBAA]

Waiting for the one that uses the recycled skulls of dead gang rivals.

[Damifino]

I don’t think this solves the root issue of micro-plastics now found in almost every body of water and in the livers of all fish.

There are some recent processes developed to recycle waste plastic into fuel with a net energy gain. I think I prefer that solution.

[VTenigma]

1.7 tons, .7 tons per mile LOL

[KC_Lion]

They must be rolling on money to fund this sort of B.S.

Must be time to increase the Border Wall Fee.....

[Robert DeLong]

[knarf]

” Neither Dow or the SCT commented on the cost of the project.”

[Chode]

The 2.5-mile stretch of highway in the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico used 1.7 tons of recycled plastic,

the arithmetic doesn’t sound right to me...

[polymuser]

Wonder if it had a lot of used and tossed syringes from USA in the mix...

[digger48]

1.7 tons? Over 2.5 miles?

The paint used to stripe the road weighs more than that

[wastedyears]

I wonder how long that’s gonna last.

[clearcarbon]

"Mexico Unveils First Highway Paved With Recycled Plastic"

The article doesn't mention anything about biodegradable plastics or plastics that degrade when exposed to sunlight.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I’ve wondered if that were possible. It seems that mixing a petroleum based plastic into the asphalt would be a no-brainer.

[CincyRichieRich]

probably a few dead bodies that were wrapped in garbage bags also.

[exDemMom]

I dunno, I see a huge environmental problem developing here. Plastics leech all kinds of nasty stuff. Does it decay into harmless CO2, or does it produce more toxic molecules?

I think it would be best if the plastic were either incinerated or somehow bio-degraded in a controlled environment.

[Deo et patriae]

The picture is under clouds.
What does it look like under the glare of bright Mexican Sun?

[JimRed]

If the process is not harmful to the environment, works for me! But research any unintended consequences before going with it.

[bert]

Recycled plastic is plastic, probably thermo plastic that is temperature sensitive. The plastic lacks hardness and is therefore subject to deformation under load. The plastic, lacking compressive strength, will deform

Deformation means that after a short interval the heated roadway will change shape under the load imparted by vehicle wheels. It will be rutted in short order.