Just Pinned to Domestic and Global News: Futuristic roads now mixing recycled plastic with asphalt making them last 10x longer (Natural News) A British engineer has used recycled plastic to build a road providing another potential solution to the mounting problem of plastic pollution that is killing the worldsmarine wildlife and threatening public health.According to astory on Curbed.com Toby McCartney paved his own drivewayby enhancing asphalt the crude oil-based component in road mix by combiningit with plastic waste cut into tiny pellets. The resultingroad is supposedly 60 percent stronger than conventional roads and 10 times more durable. Cumbria a county in Northwest England has reportedly started using McCartneys product in their own public roads. On the website of his company MacRebur McCartney said that he got the idea for using plastic in roads while in India where he saw localsmelting plastic trashas makeshift fillers for potholes. Instead of melting plastic which is actually harmful to the environment he got the idea to instead mix it into road building material as a binder additive. Eighteenmonths of testing later McCartney is now offering the asphalt enhancing product u
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