KBLA Talk 1580 Launches Climate Justice Campaign – Los Angeles Sentinel lasentinel.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lasentinel.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
12 Countries Have Built Roads Out of Plastic â 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.Â
A road running through Accra, Ghanaâs capital, looks like any other blacktop. Yet what most drivers donât realize is that the asphalt under them contains a slurry of used plasticsâshredded and melted bags, bottles, and snack wrapsâthat otherwise were destined for a landfill.
March 9, 2021
A traditional asphalt road like this one may look the same and perform better with plastic waste baked into it.
Shutterstock
Close Authorship
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.