NHAI to focus on using plastic waste to build highways in urban areas
Ministry of Road Transport and Highways encourages the use of waste plastic in construction of National Highways, especially in those areas located within 50 km of urban areas that have a population of 5 lakh or more, informed an official release. Highly populated urban areas are likely to generate maximum plastic waste.
NHAI has already used plastic waste in wearing courses of National Highways construction on the pilot basis in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
It is now scaling up the waste plastic use by mapping ongoing projects in the proximity of populous urban areas. NHAI has recently constructed a stretch using waste plastic on NH-48 near DhaulaKuan in the capital.
