Paving Roads With Plastic

[longknife]

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If it’s so successful in India, why aren’t we doing it here in the USA?

The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

More more of this story @ The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

 

[ABikerSailor]

There are lots of things that can be made from recycled plastic. Matter of fact, not only can it be made into stuff like buildings and roads, but you can also make cloth out of it. I have a blanket that was made out of recycled plastic.

Only problem is, with the tariffs that Trump has imposed on China, they are now starting to refuse recycle material from the US.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

There are lots of things that can be made from recycled plastic. Matter of fact, not only can it be made into stuff like buildings and roads, but you can also make cloth out of it. I have a blanket that was made out of recycled plastic.

Only problem is, with the tariffs that Trump has imposed on China, they are now starting to refuse recycle material from the US.

actually the Chinese stopped taking recycled matterial because the are getting too much

 

[irosie91]

maybe we can do something with our soybean glut

 

[Confounding]

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

You're okay with the government using the funds necessary to see that done?

 

[Vastator]

Turning this:

Into this:

If it’s so successful in India, why aren’t we doing it here in the USA?

The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

More more of this story @ The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

Can you imagine the health, environmental hazards caused when roads, and buildings made of plastic catch on fire?

 

[Wuwei]

The problem is getting users to recycle it.

A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn't Recycled

 

[ABikerSailor]

There are lots of things that can be made from recycled plastic. Matter of fact, not only can it be made into stuff like buildings and roads, but you can also make cloth out of it. I have a blanket that was made out of recycled plastic.

Only problem is, with the tariffs that Trump has imposed on China, they are now starting to refuse recycle material from the US.

actually the Chinese stopped taking recycled matterial because the are getting too much

Wrong. They stopped because of the tariffs. Here, educate yourself................

Amid Trade Feud, Recycling Is in Danger of Landing on Trash Pile

Chinese trade barriers are compounding the problems faced by companies that recycle scrap paper, plastic and metal.


The U.S. generates more recyclable waste than any other country. China is the top customer for that scrap. China bought two-thirds of the used paper and half the scrap aluminum that the U.S. sold overseas last year, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., part of an overall haul of 13 million metric tons of cast-off American packaging, periodicals and shredded car bodies.

China’s 25% tariff on U.S. scrap aluminum would make reusable metal from other countries more appealing. China also recently imposed tougher quality standards on other imported recyclables, sending the U.S. recycling industry into a tailspin

 

[Wuwei]

Can you imagine the health, environmental hazards caused when roads, and buildings made of plastic catch on fire?

The article says that they mix the plastic with asphalt. 10% plastic + 90% asphalt. That is used to stabilize small rocks in the roadbed. So it would seem to be no more flammable than widely used asphalt roads in the US.

 

[ABikerSailor]

Can you imagine the health, environmental hazards caused when roads, and buildings made of plastic catch on fire?

The article says that they mix the plastic with asphalt. 10% plastic + 90% asphalt. That is used to stabilize small rocks in the roadbed. So it would seem to be no more flammable than widely used asphalt roads in the US.

Not only that, but they probably put some kind of flame retardant chemical in with the plastics.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

There are lots of things that can be made from recycled plastic. Matter of fact, not only can it be made into stuff like buildings and roads, but you can also make cloth out of it. I have a blanket that was made out of recycled plastic.

Only problem is, with the tariffs that Trump has imposed on China, they are now starting to refuse recycle material from the US.

actually the Chinese stopped taking recycled matterial because the are getting too much

Wrong. They stopped because of the tariffs. Here, educate yourself................

Amid Trade Feud, Recycling Is in Danger of Landing on Trash Pile

Chinese trade barriers are compounding the problems faced by companies that recycle scrap paper, plastic and metal.


The U.S. generates more recyclable waste than any other country. China is the top customer for that scrap. China bought two-thirds of the used paper and half the scrap aluminum that the U.S. sold overseas last year, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., part of an overall haul of 13 million metric tons of cast-off American packaging, periodicals and shredded car bodies.

China’s 25% tariff on U.S. scrap aluminum would make reusable metal from other countries more appealing. China also recently imposed tougher quality standards on other imported recyclables, sending the U.S. recycling industry into a tailspin

Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'

 

[ABikerSailor]

There are lots of things that can be made from recycled plastic. Matter of fact, not only can it be made into stuff like buildings and roads, but you can also make cloth out of it. I have a blanket that was made out of recycled plastic.

Only problem is, with the tariffs that Trump has imposed on China, they are now starting to refuse recycle material from the US.

actually the Chinese stopped taking recycled matterial because the are getting too much

Wrong. They stopped because of the tariffs. Here, educate yourself................

Amid Trade Feud, Recycling Is in Danger of Landing on Trash Pile

Chinese trade barriers are compounding the problems faced by companies that recycle scrap paper, plastic and metal.


The U.S. generates more recyclable waste than any other country. China is the top customer for that scrap. China bought two-thirds of the used paper and half the scrap aluminum that the U.S. sold overseas last year, according to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., part of an overall haul of 13 million metric tons of cast-off American packaging, periodicals and shredded car bodies.

China’s 25% tariff on U.S. scrap aluminum would make reusable metal from other countries more appealing. China also recently imposed tougher quality standards on other imported recyclables, sending the U.S. recycling industry into a tailspin

Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'

Yes, China did raise their standards for what they would accept, but that was also covered in my post, because if you had read the last sentence of the article I posted, you would have seen that China has imposed tougher quality standards, and that was part of the response to the tariffs.

 

[Vastator]

Can you imagine the health, environmental hazards caused when roads, and buildings made of plastic catch on fire?

The article says that they mix the plastic with asphalt. 10% plastic + 90% asphalt. That is used to stabilize small rocks in the roadbed. So it would seem to be no more flammable than widely used asphalt roads in the US.

What about the run off water?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Wrong. They stopped because of the tariffs. Here, educate yourself................

Tariffs are temporary and meant to be punitive ... Negotiations will resume and trade will return to quasi normal with a communist government...

 

[Gracie]

India is one nasty filthy disgusting country. Pigs.

 

[Asclepias]

Turning this:

Into this:

If it’s so successful in India, why aren’t we doing it here in the USA?

The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

More more of this story @ The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

Sounds like a good idea until you realize this stuff will ultimately flake off or burn off and pollute the environment.

 

[OnePercenter]

Wrong. They stopped because of the tariffs. Here, educate yourself................

Tariffs are temporary and meant to be punitive ... Negotiations will resume and trade will return to quasi normal with a communist government...

The price increases we will see won't go away.

 

[OnePercenter]

Turning this:

Into this:

If it’s so successful in India, why aren’t we doing it here in the USA?

The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

More more of this story @ The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

Sounds like a good idea until you realize this stuff will ultimately flake off or burn off and pollute the environment.

No more than any other petroleum byproduct. Cement roadways would be a non-polluter.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The price increases we will see won't go away.

That may very well be true...

 

[Jarlaxle]

Turning this:

Into this:

If it’s so successful in India, why aren’t we doing it here in the USA?

The amount of plastic produced in a year is roughly the same as the entire weight of humanity

Wow! Wouldn’t it be great is they could gather up plastic from that mass floating in the ocean and turn it into roads and buildings?

More more of this story @ The man who paves India's roads with old plastic

Sounds like a good idea until you realize this stuff will ultimately flake off or burn off and pollute the environment.

No more than any other petroleum byproduct. Cement roadways would be a non-polluter.

Except they just don't hold up. Anywhere that gets hard winters and salts roads, concrete simply does not work. The rebar corroded and cracks the slabs, and rock salt just EATS it.