North East Village Is Building Roads From Discarded Plastic And Setting An Example For All

As the levels of environmental pollution and degradation continue to increase at an alarming rate, we are left with a thousand areas to work on. And without a shade of doubt, the overuse of plastic and the massive amount of plastic trash is one of them. If you think I’m exaggerating, a dead sperm whale found recently on the shores of Mexico consuming 64 pounds of plastic debris is proof enough.

But while most refuse to do their bit for the conservation of nature, a few Samaritans have begun acting for the cause, for the good.

Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a Chemistry professor from Madurai’s Thiagarajar College has come up with a brilliant idea where one can use finely shredded plastic to build roads!

The shredded plastic is mixed with a mixture of bituminous concrete before fusing it to the regular process. The plastic can replace as much as 10-30 of bituminous concrete (tar).

Moved by the innovative idea, Nongkynjang village, West Khasi Hills has also taken up the process of constructing roads with plastic.

The local administration gathered all the plastic waste from the village and put them into significant use for building roads.

Speaking about the same in his Facebook post, Deputy Commissioner Nongstoin Arunkumar Kembhavi said,