The plastic-based asphalt has been gaining popularity in the UK these days as it marks the latest innovation when it comes to durable at the same time environment-friendly roads. Because of this, two local governments from England gave their support to start with the road building project using the said material.
With the latest reports, UK is banking on recycled materials to be sued in some of its structures as well as roads. Then regarding the above0mentuoned news, UK engineer and entrepreneur Toby McCartney has been dealing with possible ways on how he could come up with asphalt that comes from recycled materials.
According to Digital Trends, McCartney relied on the advancement of technology in order to produce a kind of his project. Then he thought of the plastic waste from landfills which could be used to generate a top quality of road asphalt. Not long after that, he successfully was able to produce asphalt made of these materials and with this, he intends to transform millions of roads in the UK or possibly across the world.
The advantages of using the recycled plastic materials as road asphalts have been enumerated most especially when it comes to the preservation of the environment and cost-saving. According to McCartney, through this project, the number of plastics that are thrown to the landfills will be lessened. Moreover, he also mentioned if the government will rely on this, the use of fossil fuels will also be cut down.
Aside from the preservation of the environment, companies who sell plastics to landfills will also benefit from this. If they will sell these plastics to McCartney, they will save some money since they do not need to pay for additional taxes anymore as per The Drive.
Apart from those perks mentioned, the engineer also shared that even the government can save a lot of money from this plastic-based asphalt since they will just provide less maintenance to the great quality of roads these will make. Then even the driver can save much because they will be driving on better roads compared to those which are filled with potholes.
