Dow and Shiny Meadow making roads from milk bottles in China
Dow and Chinese dairy company Shiny Meadow have partnered to divert plastic waste from the environment.
In China's first ever "plastic road" project, the companies utilized used milk bottles to construct a road made with recycled plastic, giving hard-to-recycle plastic a second life.
Dow said it is committed to enable 1m tons of plastic to be collected, reused, or recycled through its direct actions and partnerships by 2030.
The Milk Bottle Road was unveiled at East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) Xuhui Campus. Enabled by Dow's ELVALOY RET asphalt modification technology, more than 6,000 used milk bottles and other plastic wastes were used to pave the polymer-modified asphalt (PMA) road. Dow said roads made with PMA demonstrate excellent performance and durability as compared to conventional neat asphalt.