Paving Roads With Plastic

[Darkwind]

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...

Yep. At which time all these other countries will return to imposing stiff tariffs against US made products and the left will once again be happy that America is getting screwed over.

 

[Natural Citizen]

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

Well why they gotta be government roads all of a sudden? Heh heh.

 

[ABikerSailor]

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.

Actually, there are several stretches of road starting just outside of Colorado Springs, and goes up to Denver, where the highway is made of concrete. Kind of a bitch to ride a motorcycle on as well, because it's that nasty grooved concrete, and it will mess with the steering of a motorcycle.

And.................they get pretty serious winters up there and they also salt the roads.