Current Events > Netherlands to Build Roads With Recycled Plastic From the Ocean

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A Dutch organization has just announced plans to salvage plastic pollution from the ocean and use it to build highways in Rotterdam.

The solution is quite simple: VolkerWessels, the company leading the project, plans to gather the materials by installing barricades in nearby ocean waters. The plastics will then be transported, processed, and compressed into building blocks for the roads.

Beyond its benefit to the planet, the raw recycled material used for the PlasticRoad project is more durable and easier to manipulate and maintain.

Studies suggest that nearly any type of plastic can be used, and the material is resistant to temperature variation from -40 to 176 Fahrenheit (-40 to 80C).

Scientists are already in the final stages of testing the safety of the material and if plans go according to schedule, the first roads will be built later this year.

Full ARticle: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/netherlands-to-build-roads-with-recycled-ocean-plastic/

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump is spending 4 million US Dollars on 8 Boarder Wall prototypes made of metal and concrete.
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Neat
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Expecting Trump to be anything less than a lying idiot is foolish.
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bover_87 posted...

Expecting Trump to be anything less than a lying idiot is foolish.

40 million voted for him
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Trump should build the wall out of recycled Mexican plastic
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This is very cool. Hopefully it works out.

What happens when a car bursts into flames on this plastic highway?
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Asphalt is already made of recycled materials and can be reused. Plus plastic does not seem to be a very good material to build roads out of.
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Fishy posted...

What happens when a car bursts into flames on this plastic highway?

itll melt and then the country will explode