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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
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To: BobL; sphinx; GreenLanternCorps; Publius; oldvirginian
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:39:03 AM PST
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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.)
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.
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:40:26 AM PST
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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.)
To: 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:40:55 AM PST
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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.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Waiting for the one that uses the recycled skulls of dead gang rivals.
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:45:30 AM PST
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PTBAA
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.
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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.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
1.7 tons, .7 tons per mile LOL
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:47:43 AM PST
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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.....
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:47:59 AM PST
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KC_Lion
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To: Damifino
That’s the one I’ve been waiting for too.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
” Neither Dow or the SCT commented on the cost of the project.”
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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..)
To: Robert DeLong
I’m pretty sure that’s a stock photo of a road in the U.S.
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posted on
11/28/2019 8:54:35 AM PST
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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.)
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...
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11/28/2019 8:56:42 AM PST
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Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wonder if it had a lot of used and tossed syringes from USA in the mix...
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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)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
1.7 tons? Over 2.5 miles?
The paint used to stripe the road weighs more than that
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11/28/2019 8:59:36 AM PST
by
digger48
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".
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11/28/2019 9:03:57 AM PST
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Mogger
To: VTenigma
~3.9lbs per liner foot... AMAZING!!!
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posted on
11/28/2019 9:05:05 AM PST
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Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I wonder how long that’s gonna last.
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posted on
11/28/2019 9:05:15 AM PST
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wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"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.
To: wastedyears
Are we subsidizing it? You know...to be a good neighbor.
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11/28/2019 9:10:37 AM PST
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TribalPrincess2U
(0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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