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Reliance Industry to use single-use plastic for roads construction

By M4G Bureau - January 30, 2020

The company is looking to initiate dialogue with highway authority & individual states to supply plastic made mix for roads

Reliance Industries, a leading manufacturer company unveiled the project to use single use plastic in road constructions to deal with the increasing pollution in India. This plan is also in synergy with PM’s vision to end consumption of single-use of plastic by end of 2022. In an event, the company officials shared that India, which uses about 14 million tonnes of plastic annually, lacks an organised system for management of plastic waste, leading to widespread littering.

To work on the plan, the company also shared that they will initiate dialogues with the highway authority and individual states to supply the plastics-infused mix to make some of the thousands of kilometres of roads PM Modi wants to build to upgrade its creaking infrastructure.

Reliance Industries wants to shred these plastics and mix them with bitumen, a formula the conglomerate says is cheaper and longer-lasting.

"(This) can be a game-changing project both for our environment and our roads," Vipul Shah, the COO of the petrochemicals business, said at a company plant in Maharashtra.

In Maharashtra's Raigad, Reliance Industries has built a 40-km-long road by using plastic waste. The road is made of 50 tons of plastic, saving one lakh every kilometer from recycled plastic roads

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