Reliance to supply waste plastic mixture to strengthen Indian roads

MUMBAI : Reliance Industries, plastic pollution, use of plastics in road construction, Vipul Shah, UNEP

Amid growing concerns of waste plastic pollution in the country, oil-to-telecom major Reliance Industries (RIL), has launched a project to use plastics in road construction.

RIL which is India’s largest petrochemicals player has so far constructed three plastic-to-roads projects on a pilot basis and these initiatives, said the company, have helped it create a solution for disposal of non-recyclable post-consumer plastic waste. As part of the initiative, RIL will sell the plastic waste mixture for road laying.