Ninety percent of the plastic we use ends up in landfills, or in the world's oceans. Now, a Scottish firm has invented a way to recycle that hard-to-use plastic for a role that requires durability: ...

India has 15000 tons of plastic waste every day. This amount should double in 5 years. 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) of plastic roads have been laid in India in at least 11 states. Solving India’s ...

RENO — Asphalt pavement formulated with recycled plastic has successfully survived heavy truck traffic and the atmospheric rivers of the winter of 2022-23 after a section of California State Route 99 ...

A crusading Indian scientist is at the forefront of a movement to use more plastic technologies to fix India's failing roads. In 2002, Rajagopalan Vasudevan used his now-patented bitumin-modified ...

Recycling plastic, including marine debris, into asphalt is no longer a fringe idea. Local mechanical recycling of waste plastics is technically feasible but scaling it across the United States will ...

(TNS) — Think of it as where the root beer meets the road. Or maybe life in the Fanta lane? In an experiment they hope will one day make California’s roads more durable and put a dent in the state’s ...

An additive in the asphalt pavement used at a new polyethylene plant Nova Chemicals is building near Corunna was made from recycled plastic equivalent to 700,000 used plastic bags, the company says.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), in a significant move towards sustainable infrastructure, has repurposed more than 63 million tonnes of waste materials in the construction of national ...

Nepal is testing an unusual answer to a very familiar problem. In Pokhara and other pilot areas, discarded wrappers, snack packets, and other low-value plastics are being shredded and used in asphalt ...

The Netherlands really seem to be ahead of the game when it comes to finding ways to build more sustainable roadways. They have tested sections of roadways made with steel wool that can fix themselves ...