According to a Statista analysis, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. The U.S. is a notable exception.

Science Experts Study Using Waste Plastic in Roads and More, but Find the Practice Isn’t Ready for Prime Time A National Academies of Sciences report identifies roadblocks to using plastic waste ...

Roads with these plastic beads last twice as long as those without, Beeman said. That means less maintenance and repairs are needed over a road’s lifetime, saving costs, time and energy.

A worker involved in making the first road constructed with plastic waste in Agartala, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, on Jan. 29, 2021.

The project has scouted roads in Dallas and Kaufman counties to try 'Plastic Roads' later this summer. "So we are looking forward to paving a road, like a real road, with our mix," Faruk said.

Despite these concerns, environmentalist Bhushan Tuladhar said that plastic roads present an important opportunity for Nepal. "It is a low-hanging fruit to address two problems simultaneously ...

Colorado company uses plastic from Dillon Marina and turns it into roads 03:07. While a pile of polyethylene plastic wrap piled up in a storage shed for the Dillon Marina (from boats wrapped up in ...

Plastic bottles and bags are being recycled into asphalt mixture to produce roads that are kinder to the environment and, manufacturers claim, longer lasting. A number of councils around the UK ...

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...

BANGALORE (Reuters Life!) - An Indian company has found a novel use for the heaps of ecologically unsound plastic that litter Bangalore: it's turning it into roads. K.K. Plastic Waste Management ...

Since the early 2000s, neighbouring India has been leading the world in building a network of plastic roads, even making the usage of plastic waste mandatory in roads near large cities in 2015.