First recycled plastic road constructed in Guwahati

Guwahati, Nov 2: For the first time in the country, 1.24 metric ton plastic waste was used to build a road in Narangi Military Station near Guwahati.

According to G PLUS News, this was in line with the Union Governemnt’s mission against single use plastic and initiative to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic waste. 1.24 MT plastic was used in making this road in the Narangi Military station.

In this technology, the road is constructed by mixing shredded plastic waste with heated bitumen. This is a green technology, which aims to reduce menace of plastic waste at one hand and improve the durability of the roads on the other.

The project to use plastic in road building is an initiative to reduce, reuse and recycle waste plastic. The road constructed using waste plastic lasts longer, is cheaper to build and maintain and significantly reduces the amount of plastic going into our oceans and landfills. Utilisation of waste plastic in road construction can help in significantly solving one of the biggest problems of plastic waste management.

Earlier, the Assam State government constructed 237.652 km of the 565-km total stretch using recycled plastic in Goalpara.