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by Bal krishna Pandey | 13-10-2019 01:25
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Simply, Plastic road is creation of roads from recycled plastic. Main objective:- -To reduce the plastic waste-bags,bottles from environment -To improve economy In today's world; There is rapid increase in popn which in turn increases solid waste such as plastic. As plastic is non-biodegradable; Use of waste plastic for pavement is one of the most appropriate alternative to the valley's growing plastic pollution. Materials used in construction of plastic Road are:- Aggregate, Bitumen and waste plastic. waste plastic when added to hot aggregate(aggregate heated at 170(oc) ) form a fine coat of plastic over the aggregate and such aggregate when mixed with the binder(bitumen) form polymer-bitumen-aggregate mixture which give higher Strength,higher resistance to water and better performance over a period of time. Advantages:- -Roads blacktopped with plastic have higher load bearing capacity, are water resistant and durable. -Reduce the need of bitumen(coaltar) by around 10% and so improve economy. -Increased binding and better bonding of plastic coated aggregate and bitumen mixture. -Development of technology which is eco-friendly. Despite of these advantages, we have some challenges as well; After few years of road construction,polymers start to breakdown into little and little pieces. And In monsoon, the rain will carry away those particles into other sources and the source gets toxicated. If the rain cannot carry it to other Places,then the paricles enters slowly into soil and again it destroys land. To conclude, Use of plastics for pavement is one of the best methods for easy disposal of waste plastics.Also,the durability of roads laid out with shredded plastic is much more compared with roads with bitumen with ordinary mix. It is hoped that, In near future, we will have strong, durable and eco-friendly roads which will relieve the earth from all types of plastic.
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10 Comments
Hello Bal!
Didn't know there was such a creative way of recycling plastics!
It looks a good way of dealing with plastics wastes.
However, I'm little concerned about the fact that it can cause secondary environmental problems.
I believe that improved construction technology might solve the problem.
Thank you for the informative report!
Posted 21-10-2019 10:29
Hey Bal,
greetings from your mentor!
I have never heard of such a road before!!!
I think it's amazing and thanks for explaining to us about it in detail.
Regarding the limits and weaknesses, I am pretty sure that there are some innovative technologies being developed to resolve them. We should all look up for more information! Or maybe you could continue on writing your free monthly report of November involving the efforts to overcome the limits of the plastic road!
And for the picture, it is awesome!
Did you take it yourself?
If not, please leave the citation:)
Never forget to credit the author when using their work!
Thank you for such an interesting article
and I really look forward to your next work!
Nice Job!
Posted 16-10-2019 14:09
Hello dada
I hope you are doing fine. Beautiful report on plastic road.
Keep writing
Yours
Madhu Aryal
Posted 14-10-2019 19:26
Hello Balkrishna dai,
This is amazing that the roads are made up of plastics.
Thank you for this informative report
Go green!!
Posted 14-10-2019 13:45
Hello BalKrishna dai !!1
I hope you are well and doing great.
Thank you for wonderful piece of writing.
Plastic roads is really great to hear.
Knowing its merit is really amazing.
Keep writing and shining.
Hope to know more from you.
Yours,
Meena
GREEN CHEERs
Posted 14-10-2019 00:46
Hello Bal Krishna dai,
Really! it's an amazing idea, to use plastic wastage.
such a meaningful report.
keep going, keep inspiring us.
Regards,
Susma Thapa
Posted 13-10-2019 22:55
Hello Balkrishna bro
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about Plastic Roads. I do remember me writing about the same topic last year about it being practiced in Nepal
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 13-10-2019 18:57
Hello! Thank you so much for the amazing report :)
I did not know about this and I hope something similar can be implemented in my country as well.
Alice
Posted 13-10-2019 18:08
Hello balkrishna dai
I hope you are well.
This is completely astonishing. It's durability is more compared to road ade from other products. Plastic road, great to know about.
Thank you so much for this report.
Green cheers!
Yours
Asmita Gaire
Posted 13-10-2019 11:11
Hello dai
Thank you for this informative report .
Good wishes
Posted 13-10-2019 11:07