plastic roads

Major report investigates plastic in roads

28/11/2019

There are 'major concerns' about the potential health and safety hazards workers could be exposed to while handling recycled plastic modified binders during road construction, a new report from the top Australasian transport body says.

Plastic waste trialled in hand lay (and footway) reinstatements

31/07/2019

A major utility company is trialling the use of plastic waste in footway reinstatements.

Exclusive: Transport Scotland and 'plastic roads' firm MacRebur put 'agreements' on the table

16/07/2019

A meeting between MacRebur - 'the plastic roads company' - Transport Scotland and transport officers from SCOTS has established a set of 'agreements' around the use of recycled plastic waste material in roads, as well as its media presentation and testing.

Scottish firms find a home for plastic roads

23/05/2019

A Scottish developer has said it is the first housebuilder to use waste plastic to build a road on a housing development.

Durham latest to trial controversial 'plastics in road' technique

29/08/2018

Motorists on the A689 near Sedgefield in County Durham are now driving along a road built using a controversial technique involving waste plastic.

Plastic roads to be trialled

13/07/2015

KWS Infra, the road building division of VolkerWessels, is hoping to trial a new “Plastic Road” system in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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