First cycle lane to use ‘plastic’ surface will save a million bags from landfill

Thames Water has re-opened a London cycle route closed for almost a decade while also managing to prevent more than a million plastic bags going to landfill. Working with partner Balfour Beatty, the UK’s largest water company has spent the last 18 months upgrading the Victorian sewers running through the Waterworks Bridge in Stratford. Once this vital work to keep the capital’s sewage network flowing was complete, efforts focused on re-surfacing the route which runs over the bridge and has been shut since work started on regenerating the area for…

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