is paving roads out of recycled plastic a good idea?
Is paving roads out of recycled plastic a good idea?
Dylan Ortiz
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Evan Ward
Fuck it why not? Ain't too different from using asphalt. Plastic doesn't really recycle.
Blake Robinson
Looked this up and found their site: en.volkerwessels.com
It seems like they've thrown out just about every buzzword they could without actually saying anything about the roads other than "hollow plastic box". I'm not an expert on plastics or roads so I'll let others tear it to shreds. A couple things I do see:
There's no way to repair damaged road except by replacing the entire segment. Unlike Asphalt/concrete there's no way to quickly patch a damaged section of road.
They stress that the hollow part can be used to lay cables and pipes. They neglect to say how you would install and maintain those cables/pipes. Cutting open the road would require you to replace the entire segment and replacing the entire segment would require breaking (And then somehow fixing) every cable/pipe that goes under the road.
Jacob Butler
just delet this thread
t. civ engineer
Cameron White
Good luck going over 15km/h in the rain
Julian Thompson
asphalt gets pretty hot in the summer. Won't plastic melt in the sun?
Camden Fisher
heat cycling fucks with asphalt but it OBLITERATES plastic
UV obliterates plastic
plastic is cheap but not nearly as cheap as asphalt
Brody Gomez
most plastics produce carcinogens when heated
and leach out xenoestrogen. Sounds like it'd be an ecological disaster.
Hudson Gomez
Nope, it will melt, it will stink, kill the ecosystem, poor friction.
The idea is shit in all levels.
Julian Stewart
This
Plastics will not be durable for high volumes of traffic, weathering, and fluctuations of heat/cold
One insult to integrity.... rip