Jambulingam street was one of india’s first plastic roads. Professor vasudevan, who’s also known as india’s plastic man, built the first plastic road in 2002 at his university. To this day it has no potholes or cracks.
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Fifteen years later, the road, jambulingam street, “has yet to show any signs of wear and tear that typical roads tend to, such as cracks and potholes,” according to oxy chennai.
This technology is getting replicated very fast in jharkhand, after the plastic road laid at jamshedpur city on 30 november 2011.
The revolution of plastic waste roads started brewing in 2015 when the centre made it mandatory for all road developers in the country to use plastic waste for road construction after padma sri rajagopalan vasudevan, a professor from. The plastic road project was carried out jointly with vise, surfax, lasfalto, and omnigreen and was supported by the ministry of communications and transportation of mexico. The first plastic road in tamil nadu was laid down in kambainallur, a panchayat town of the dharmapuri district as per the guidelines of then chief minister. You see, india has actually been building plastic roads for years now, 17 years to be exact.
In its first, lucknow is constructing a road out of plastic waste to curb environment pollution due to plastic.
This is to help overcome the growing problem of plastic waste disposal in india. The environmentally conscious approach to road construction was developed in india around 15 years ago in response to the growing. Since then many municipalities across india have experimented and implemented this technology such as pune, mumbai, surat, indore, delhi, lucknow, etc. In 2015, the government of india made it mandatory for all road developers in the country to use plastic waste for road construction.
With india home to one of the world's largest road networks, growing at a rate of nearly 10,000km of roads a year, the potential to put plastic waste to use is considerable.
According to mba polymers, a plastic recycling company, one of the very first plastic roads built in india was in chennai's nungambakkam area, back in 2002. When late dr abdul kalam, india’s former president and scientist visited thiagarajar college, he encouraged dr vasudevan to lay the first plastic paved road within the campus. In a first, lucknow gets road constructed using plastic waste lucknow development authority's initiative is inspired by the success of roads in many foreign countries. Since then all major municipalities in india have experimented with the technology including pune , mumbai , surat , indore , delhi , lucknow , etc.
The technology for this was developed by the ‘plastic man’ of india, prof rajagopalan.
The plastic roads in india were first developed by rajagopalan, which he used as a combination of asphalt mix and plastic mix, and this is used for road construction, so this technique gave a new way of recycling plastic waste. The first plastic road in the world is made with hard plastic and elvaloy and is located in the state of guanajuato, mexico, and its length is 2 km. In a first, the bengaluru unit of national highway authority of india (nhai) used plastic waste to partially build a road. Plastic and tar bond well together because both are petroleum products.
Chennai municipality adapted this technology in a big way by commissioning 1000 km of plastic roads in the year 2004.
They are also cheaper to build because plastic waste is much less expensive than asphalt. In jamshedpur, india, roads are created from a mix of plastic and bitumen. The first road built using this method was in 2002, jambulingam street, in chennai. The project has been undertaken by lucknow development authority (lda), which will construct a road using plastic waste,.
Jamshedpur utilites and services company (jusco) has undertaken an initiative to use plastic waste for road construction in jamshedpur and in 2016, 50 km of roads has been constructed under this project.
The first city in india to globally adapt plastic road technology was chennai. India has built one lakh kilometres of roads in at least 11 states using discarded plastic. Since plastic roads are a relatively new idea, construction processes may vary. One of the country’s first plastic roads was built in 2002, in chennai, a city in tamil nadu.
For every 1 km long and 4 m wide of road using this technology, 1 ton of bitumen costing $751,500 is saved.
A government order in november 2015 has made it mandatory for all road developers in the country to use waste plastic, along with bituminous mixes, for road construction. In a first of its kind initiative in the country, work began on thursday on a road stretch in noida being made from plastic waste. The modular plastic road was first Yes, you read that right.
Built in 2002, the road in jambulingam street was one of the country’s first plastic roads.
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