The world's first plastic road will be built in the Netherlands

Plastic roads refer to roads built with recycled plastic modules
.
These modules can withstand the same pressures as asphalt, but have a number of advantages over them: they are lighter and therefore easier to transport, assemble and maintain
.
It offers a range of benefits and reduces a significant amount of construction waste
.
In addition, there is much
less soil settlement.
They are hollow in the middle, leaving space for communication and drainage
.

The materials needed to build roads are all recycled plastic
materials.
The plastic comes from the sea or from waste incineration plants
.
In the factory, the cleaned plastic is turned into plastic "road boards" similar to Lego bricks, and the road is built by simply putting the formwork together on the built roadbed
.

This not only reduces production costs, but also improves the efficiency of road construction, which would have taken months to complete in a matter of weeks
.

The structure of this plastic road is hollow, which can easily place various cables and pipes
.
What's more, these plastic roads are more resistant to high temperatures than asphalt or gravel roads, and can withstand temperatures from minus 40 degrees Celsius to ultra-high temperatures of 80 degrees Celsius, so the service life is also two to three years
longer than that of asphalt roads.
When the modules reach the end of their useful life, they will be sent back to the factory for another processing
.

It is worth noting that the safety of waste plastics also needs to be supervised, and the "toxic runway" incident some time ago is a wake-up call
for people.