The process involves four large construction vehicles linked together in what’s called a “recycling train,’’ which scoops up the top 3 inches of asphalt on a lane, grinds them on a mill ...

A literature review published last month in the journal Frontiers in Built Environment, for example, looked at 100 recent studies on the topic and found that not one of them evaluated potential ...

British manufacturer MacRebur has already helped paved thousands of miles of roads in the U.K. with asphalt that contains waste plastic, says CEO Toby McCartney. The company is setting up shop in ...

A California company has devised a process that integrates recycled plastic into road repaving, an innovation that could revolutionize the industry while yielding environmental benefits. Sean Weaver, ...

Engineer Toby McCartney has a solution to stop waste plastic going to landfill and potentially improve the quality of the roads we drive on. CNN values your feedback 1.

It has the benefit of being a very simple process, requiring little high-tech machinery. First, the shredded plastic waste is scattered onto an aggregate of crushed stones and sand before being ...

Rising plastic pollution, construction emissions, and an industry hungry for cheaper, lighter materials have collided to create a simple-sounding promise: grind yesterday’s bottles and shopping ...

VolkerWessels, a major construction company with interests in the Netherlands and the UK, would like to replace asphalt road surfaces with Plastic Road: a new road surface that, as you've probably ...

In line with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s vision, plastic waste, especially single-use plastic, along with bitumen is being used extensively in the construction and strengthening of roads in ...

Many countries in Europe have been constructing plastic roads since the 1970s, while India took its first initiative in 2000. Jambulingam Street in Chennai, the capital of the Indian state of Tamil ...

Engineer Toby McCartney has a solution to stop waste plastic going to landfill and potentially improve the quality of the roads we drive on. CNN values your feedback 1.