Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.
Potholes cost the country's road users an estimated $3.4 billion per year in vehicle repairs and injuries, according to the South African Road Federation, as well as damaging freight.In August, Shisalanga Construction became the first company in South Africa to lay a section of road that's partly plastic, in KwaZulu-Natal province on the east coast.
Kit Ducasse, control technician at the KZN Department of Transport -- which commissioned the plastic repaving -- is"impressed" with the road and has now commissioned a highway on-ramp in addition to the first road."It's working so well," he says."Time will tell, but what I've seen is great news.
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