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12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic – And They Can Perform As Well or Better Than Asphalt


12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic – And They Can Perform As Well or Better Than Asphalt
Mar 11, 2021
Asphalt with the additive TonerPlas, made from mixed soft plastics, is used to resurface a roadway in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 2020/Close The Loop
This article first appeared in Yale Environment 360 and is re-printed with permission. 
A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don’t realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics—shredded and melted bags, bottles, and snack wraps—that otherwise were destined for a landfill. ....

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Can paving with plastic make a dent in global waste?


March 9, 2021
A traditional asphalt road like this one may look the same and perform better with plastic waste baked into it.
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A road running through Accra, Ghana’s capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers don’t realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plastics shredded and melted bags, bottles and snack wraps that otherwise were destined for a landfill.
The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Nana Akufo-Addo in 2018. It calls for Ghanaians to strive for a circular model, to recycle and reuse as much plastic waste as they produce each year roughly 1.1 million tons by 2030. ....

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