A research team has paved plastic-infused roads in Texas and Bangladesh, with promising results.
    • LowtierComputer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 months

      Do you know what happens to your tires when they go from new with full tread to smooth with no tread? Adding some plastic to the road will add very little and may actually reduce some pollution since road-tire interactions can convert some of those plastics/rubbers.

      • who@feddit.orgEnglish
        5 months

        Ah, yes… the old “acting responsibly here won’t completely solve the problem, so we might as well act irresponsibly” argument.

        • LowtierComputer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5 months

          Does adding tires and plastic bottles to clinker during cement production increase pollution and microplastics or decrease them?