Are the uses of recycled plastics in road / cement / asphalts a great idea.

[papa tiger]

https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-medi...s/preliminary-investigations/pi-0282-a11y.pdf

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Added at 8:15 ..... 18 wheeler / Auto's rubber / micro plastic particles from their tires are melting Ice in mountains & Poles ?

https://www.usgs.gov/centers/geosci...ce-center/science/where-rubber-meets-road-and



Yes or No. ..... please ......Then there are recycled toys?

 

[VaughanJB]

In principle, yes, a good idea, of course.

But even that paper isn't definitive, and notes some unknowns.

My question would be - we are only now becoming aware of the danger of microplastics. How does this idea/tech factor into that? Does the surface shed microplastics? After a years use? Five years? That would be the larger danger, imo.

But bigger brains that mine are no doubt trying to answer these questions.

 

[papa tiger]

I see 5 States are repaving roads with Asphault containing Plastics, the test is to see
if it will cut down on plastics. Mo. Cal. Virginia, I forget the other 2 States. Wow, Mo.!!!
Mo used Cinders a few years back.