Residents at Bristol City Council’s Ashton Rise development will drive on some of the UK’s ‘greenest’ roads when they move in next year. Willmott Dixon is using an innovative method that incorporates non-recyclable plastic originating from the scheme into the asphalt used on Ashton Rise’s new roads. By replacing part of the traditional carbon intensive bitumen usually found in asphalt with plastic waste, the innovation will stop the equivalent of 150,000 single use plastic bags from needing to be incinerated or going to landfill. It will also save 1.6…
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