Recycled Roads In Rotterdam?

One city in the Netherlands plans paving the streets with plastic from recycled bottles.

16:20 17 July 2015

One city in the Netherlands presented a concept where in plastic will be used to pave roads.

 

Rotterdam city council has announced its plans using modular panels of recycled plastic that snap together. The plan, if it goes ahead, promises Dutch drivers with a smoother ride as well as an environmental solution to paving the street that typically uses traditional asphalt.

 

VolkerWessels, the company behind the environmentally friendly modular panels, said that road made of plastic are three times more durable and are faster to install.

 

Rolf Mars, the director of VolkerWessels’ roads subdivision, said: “Plastic offers all kinds of advantages compared to current road construction, both in laying the roads and maintenance,”

 

“Rotterdam is a very innovative city and has embraced the idea. It fits very well within its sustainability policy and it has said it is keen to work on a pilot,”