The equivalent of 90,000 waste plastic water bottles help resurface Asda Wakefield’s car park

Asda’s Wakefield store is being given an environmentally-friendly make-over as part of some ongoing work in the car park. The equivalent of 90,000 waste plastic water bottles made from non-recyclable plastic and would otherwise have gone to landfill or been incinerated, have gone into making the asphalt to resurface the Wakefield store’s car park. The plastic is ground into tiny pieces and mixed together with bitumen, a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, which sets to form the asphalt. The work is done by MacRebur,…

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