PLASTIC ROAD AND ITS FEASIBILITY

Prefabricated and modular

The PlasticRoads are constructed using recycled plastics that are modular, prefabricated, and hollow. The lightweight, modular design and the precast production of the PlasticRoad make maintenance and construction of roads simpler, faster, and more efficient compared to to the standard traditional route structures.

                                    View of a Plastic Road

                                             Plastic Road

The Hollow design of Plastic Road

One unique feature of PlasticRoad is that it has an empty space that can be used as temporary storage for water and as a result of this, it is not affected by erosion or flooding. The hollow space can also serve as a transit for pipes and cables thus making it not susceptible to excavation damages. Aside from all these advantages that plastic roads offer, it can accommodate installation of sensors, and it can be used to charge electric vehicles.

How Sustainable is Plastic Road?

Plastic roads are durable because of its significant small carbon footprint compared to the traditional route structures. The fact that it has a longer lifespan and it requires fewer movements transport in its construction process lays credence to how sustainable it can be.

Advantages of Plastic Roads

•       It allows easy connection of pipes and cables due to its hollow design,

•       It can accommodate power generation and Heating; the heat helps to eliminate dampness from its surface.

•       Since plastics come with different types of physical and chemical properties, Hence, the road can be engineered to fit certain purposes or requirements.

•       Plastic roads can easily be built from waste plastic

• It does not require petroleum 
• Plastic roads need little or no asphalt, and this is beneficial as it reduces global Carbon emission. 
• Modular plastic pieces are easier to work with than asphalt. 
• Plastic reduces viscosity

·         Plastic roads are cheaper to construct compared to the regular routes.

Plastic roads could be that innovation that is yet to be properly harnessed as researches and studies are ongoing to see how it can be properly implemented. Several developed countries are already considering it has an alternative.