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Mexico Unveils First Highway Paved With Recycled Plastic
Yahoo! Finance ^ | November 25, 2019 | FreightWaves, Benzinga

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: construction; dang; dow; dowmexico; factories; ford; generalmills; gm; highway; infrastructure; lasfalto; losangeles; mexico; omnigree; philippines; plasticasphalt; plastics; recycling; roads; scotland; southafrica; surfax; testing; transportation; viseconstruction
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1 posted on 11/28/2019 8:38:30 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: BobL; sphinx; GreenLanternCorps; Publius; oldvirginian

PING!


2 posted on 11/28/2019 8:39:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: 100American; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; alrea; ...
Slightly off-topic to the Global Warming PING list.*

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

3 posted on 11/28/2019 8:40:26 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

DANG!


4 posted on 11/28/2019 8:40:55 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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


5 posted on 11/28/2019 8:45:30 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


6 posted on 11/28/2019 8:45:45 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

1.7 tons, .7 tons per mile LOL


7 posted on 11/28/2019 8:47:43 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They must be rolling on money to fund this sort of B.S.

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

8 posted on 11/28/2019 8:47:59 AM PST by KC_Lion
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9 posted on 11/28/2019 8:48:13 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Damifino

That’s the one I’ve been waiting for too.


10 posted on 11/28/2019 8:48:37 AM PST by Let's Roll
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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


11 posted on 11/28/2019 8:53:19 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: Robert DeLong

I’m pretty sure that’s a stock photo of a road in the U.S.


12 posted on 11/28/2019 8:54:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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...


13 posted on 11/28/2019 8:56:42 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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


14 posted on 11/28/2019 8:59:18 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

1.7 tons? Over 2.5 miles?

The paint used to stripe the road weighs more than that


15 posted on 11/28/2019 8:59:36 AM PST by digger48
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To: PTBAA
Waiting for the one that uses the recycled skulls of dead gang rivals.

It's been done kinda sorta.

Search by "road of bones".

16 posted on 11/28/2019 9:03:57 AM PST by Mogger
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~3.9lbs per liner foot... AMAZING!!!


17 posted on 11/28/2019 9:05:05 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I wonder how long that’s gonna last.


18 posted on 11/28/2019 9:05:15 AM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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"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.
19 posted on 11/28/2019 9:07:29 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: wastedyears

Are we subsidizing it? You know...to be a good neighbor.


20 posted on 11/28/2019 9:10:37 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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