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The most unique road in the world made of used plastic

A Scottish company has been building roads using plastic bottles for the past few years, which it claims are 3 times more durable than traditional roads. It is estimated that around 9 billion tonnes of plastic is currently available in various forms around the world, with 7 billion tonnes of plastic being either dumped into the oceans or made for waste disposal on Earth.

Toby McCarthy, the founder of a company called Macrebur, is an engineer. Stating the reason for setting up the company, he said that at first he did not want to show his children plastic-filled seas.

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He began work on a similar technique in Scotland with the help of his two friends to devise an eco-friendly way of making plastic roads. Soon he was successful and was able to invent a special “actuator” which was also patented.

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They break industrial and domestic used plastics into very fine pieces with the help of a special machine that is as much as 5mm. Then the fragments and the “actuator” are chemically processed, the material obtained is exactly the same as the bitumen / asphalt used in the construction of roads.

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Until now, they have built several kilometers long roads with used plastic, which also prove to be particularly durable, but construction experts say the sustainability of plastic-made roads will be limited to the cold countries, while the hot and sunny sunshine of the eastern countries environment, these roads may soon be broken down.

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