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Toby McCartney, an engineer based in Scotland, has developed a new type of road surface using recycled plastic. It is 60 per cent stronger than regular asphalt, lasts 10 times as long, is cheaper, and is better for the environment.
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Our city roads require a lot of maintenance over time as weather deteriorates them and potholes open up. Meanwhile there are around five trillion pieces of plastic in the ocean. McCartney came up with an answer to both issues. He turns 100 percent recycled plastic into what he calls MR6 pellets, or small pellets of waste plastic, which replace bitumen, the material used to bind roads together (extracted from crude oil) and sold by oil companies like Shell.
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