Staten Island is now home to the first public roads in New York to be created using waste plastic, following a partnership between New York City Department of Transportation and British waste plastic road company MacRebur. The two roads, located on Rice Avenue and Royal Oak Road, form the first stages of a revolutionary trial that sees otherwise unrecyclable plastics re-engineered into a new, high-quality, sustainable polymer and given a new lease on life within asphalt mix in road construction. The new eco-friendly surfaces have saved over 7,331 kilgrams of CO2e in comparison to traditional asphalt and diverted the equivalent … Read more