“In the future, we drive on plastic roads’

Posted on 10-07-2015 at 7:49 by sir_smokalot – 32 Comments”

Not only our cars to be more modern, also the road on which we drive, the development never stops. Today Is the present PlasticRoad a keeper or an empty shell?

If the KWS (a subsidiary of construction company VolkerWessels), is the first to apply. Compared to the NOS propagates the company is the processing of plastic in construction and maintenance of roads. It also has no publication about this online, so we have but to believe. KWS says with PlasticRoads a first in the world in your hands. If it really is we dare not say, but it is known that for some time abroad, to the processing of plastic in roads is considered.

Those who are somewhat in the details wants to learn to our staatsomroep not really far, but fortunately there is more on the net. This series of slides summarizes the properties nice together. Plastic is an oil product, and this commodity seems to be in processing bitumen to a desirable coating of the material.

Natural sounds the term PlasticRoads something nicer than it is, we will, of course, not about a look of samengesperste PET bottles away, but the creature must have a name. Next to previous developed KWS – entirely in the spirit of this time – even though CO2-neutral asphalt. It all sounds nice, but ultimately does not retrieve all the stage of production. In the case of PlasticRoads seem the cost is still an obstacle.

As said, the innovation never stands still – some examples: silent asphalt, roll away asphalt, the smart way Daan Roosegaarde – which of course is a good thing. But ultimately it’s all about what we in the practice see. The future will show whether PlasticRoads a keeper.

Update: it now has VolkerWessels itself a press release online.

Gallery: PlasticRoad VolkerWessels KWS

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