London paving streets with plastic to reduce global warming

[Micawber]

Virtue signaling !!!!!!!!!!

Waaa waa waaa!

Will Havana Pool take issue with this?


We’ve seen the birth of futuristic solar roads and even a return to retro gravel roads, but now there’s a new player on the street: recycled plastic. British engineer Toby McCartney has devised an innovative process to replace much of the crude oil-based asphalt in pavement with tiny pellets of plastic created from recyclable bottles. The result is a street that’s 60 percent stronger than traditional roadways, 10 times longer-lasting, and a heck of a lot better for the environment, claims McCartney’s company MacRebur.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/4/26/154...ycled-macrebur


I love that this terrific idea is made by Micawber Inc! Well, close enough anyway.

[evince]

and likely easier to clean


maybe they will even start harvesting the trash continent in the oceans

[Cancel 2018.1]

Virtue signaling !!!!!!!!!!

Waaa waa waaa!

Will Havana Pool take issue with this?


We’ve seen the birth of futuristic solar roads and even a return to retro gravel roads, but now there’s a new player on the street: recycled plastic. British engineer Toby McCartney has devised an innovative process to replace much of the crude oil-based asphalt in pavement with tiny pellets of plastic created from recyclable bottles. The result is a street that’s 60 percent stronger than traditional roadways, 10 times longer-lasting, and a heck of a lot better for the environment, claims McCartney’s company MacRebur.

https://www.curbed.com/2017/4/26/154...ycled-macrebur


I love that this terrific idea is made by Micawber Inc! Well, close enough anyway.

How does this give us cooler weather?

[NOVA]

Recycling is a good thing.....
more than 79 million tons of recycled materials — primarily reclaimed asphalt pavement material (RAP) and recycled asphalt roofing shingles (RAS) — were used in new asphalt pavement mixtures during the 2016 construction season. Ground tire rubber, steel and blast furnace slag, and recycled cellulose fibers were among the other recycled materials used in new asphalt pavements.

[evince]

How does this give us cooler weather?

its all sciencey so you wont like it

[Cancel 2018.1]

its all sciencey so you wont like it

Try me.

[evince]

Try me.

reusing previously not reusable items reduces the need for the resources they are made of being produced and it also places them in use instead of in a landfill.

[evince]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_..._garbage_patch


The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered between 1985 and 1988. It is located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N.[1] The patch extends over an indeterminate area of widely varying range depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area.
The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative pelagic concentrations of plastic, chemical sludge, and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.[2] Its low density (4 particles per cubic meter) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area. It consists primarily of a small increase in suspended, often microscopic, particles in the upper water column.

[evince]

creatures will eat this type of garbage and end up dead or ill

[evince]

now spit all over that science like you idiots always do


you hate science

and math


and history

[Callinectes]

This is a great idea. I heard they were using recycled plastics taken from the ocean and I hope this idea is spread all over the world. I have no idea how it will impact "global warming", but it seems good for the ocean.

[kudzu]

Interesting...........

[Irish Exit]

This is a great idea. I heard they were using recycled plastics taken from the ocean and I hope this idea is spread all over the world. I have no idea how it will impact "global warming", but it seems good for the ocean.

If you ignore that all the plastics will get washed into the storm drains, into the rivers, and then back into the oceans again as microscopic dust that we won't be able to readily extract from the seawater.

[Sailor]

Try me.

I can see that failed.....!

[Callinectes]

If you ignore that all the plastics will get washed into the storm drains, into the rivers, and then back into the oceans again as microscopic dust that we won't be able to readily extract from the seawater.

Party pooper! Seriously though, that could be a fish killer. Damn