Mumbai all set to get plastic roads
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Starting February 15, all authorised asphalt plants asked to supply only plastic- mixed bitumen for civic works; move comes five years after it was made mandatory by the central government Mumbai all set to get plastic roads The Du2019monte Park road extension in Bandra West was made using plastic material in 2018. PIC/ ANURAG AHIRE Prajakta Kasale prajakta. kasale@ mid- day. com SIX years after the conceptu2019s approval by the Indian Road Congress ( IRC), the city is set to get plastic roads. The civic body has issued orders to all asphalt plants to provide road material that has a mixture of waste plastic from February 15. Contractors must use only plastic- mixed bitumen for roads, henceforth. However, at the moment they have only one vendor providing road material made of plastic waste. u00bb P03 Proportion of plastic to be used in the bitumen 8 % No. of states that have introduced plastic roads 11 u2018 There are 12 approved asphalt plants. Road contractors can take material only from them.
As per the guidelines, we have instructed them to use 8 per cent of plastic in the bitumenu2019 A BMC officer u2018 While the [ Du2019monte Park road] stretch measures not more than 100 metres and is not a very busy road, it is in good condition after two yearsu2019 Asif Zakaria, corporator from Bandra How is this better? u00a3 Higher resistance to deformation and water- induced damages u00a3 Improved stability and strength u00a3 Effective disposal of waste plastic
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