Futures Forum: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle, RETURN
Or we can allow it to end up in our seas:
Microplastics are most common waste found along Mediterranean coast, study says | The Independent
Or we can do something with it:
Why plastic roads could be the future
Tom Bawden
Friday February 8th 2019
Carrier bags, bottles and nappies will be used to resurface roads and fill potholes across Cumbria – leading a government push into plastic roads that could eventually see household waste added to road surfaces all over the country.
The roads will use a plastic mix made out of everyday household waste which is added to the tarry bitumen that glues together our rocky asphalt road surfaces.
Advocates such as MacRebur, the Lockerbie-based company that developed the mix, say it provides a green solution to the road crisis by using waste plastic that would have been burned or sent to landfill to mend surfaces. The new waste-plastic enhanced bitumen is also cheaper, stronger, longer lasting and more flexible than standard bitumen, they say.
Cumbria has been trialling the new plastic road mix for two years on a handful of short stretches of roads, junctions and roundabouts to test its performance.
Happy with the results so far, the county is about to significantly step up its plastic roads programme. This will see the unofficial plastic road capital of the UK using the mix in a much wider range of road projects over longer stretches.
Carrier bags, bottles and nappies will be used to resurface roads and fill potholes across Cumbria – leading a government push into plastic roads that could eventually see household waste added to road surfaces all over the country.
The roads will use a plastic mix made out of everyday household waste which is added to the tarry bitumen that glues together our rocky asphalt road surfaces.
Advocates such as MacRebur, the Lockerbie-based company that developed the mix, say it provides a green solution to the road crisis by using waste plastic that would have been burned or sent to landfill to mend surfaces. The new waste-plastic enhanced bitumen is also cheaper, stronger, longer lasting and more flexible than standard bitumen, they say.
Cumbria has been trialling the new plastic road mix for two years on a handful of short stretches of roads, junctions and roundabouts to test its performance.
Happy with the results so far, the county is about to significantly step up its plastic roads programme. This will see the unofficial plastic road capital of the UK using the mix in a much wider range of road projects over longer stretches.
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Why plastic roads could be the future - inews.co.uk
Here's the website of the company providing these alternatives:
MacRebur | The Plastic Road Company
The head of the company spoke at a TED Talk last year:
"By asking the simple question "What if", McCartney has put himself on a mission to clean up the world's plastic epidemic, finding revolutionary ways of using old rubbish to create a new world.
"Winner of Richard Branson’s Virgin VOOM competition this year, Toby McCartney is the founder and CEO of MacRebur Limited. Toby is on a mission to clean up the world’s plastic epidemic and find new revolutionary ways of using our old rubbish to create a new world for today and tomorrow:"
"Winner of Richard Branson’s Virgin VOOM competition this year, Toby McCartney is the founder and CEO of MacRebur Limited. Toby is on a mission to clean up the world’s plastic epidemic and find new revolutionary ways of using our old rubbish to create a new world for today and tomorrow:"
What if we talk rubbish? | Toby McCartney | TEDxCambridgeUniversity - YouTube
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