{"id":308441,"date":"2020-01-02T12:44:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=308441"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T07:14:42","slug":"states-first-road-from-plastic-waste-wears-out-in-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/states-first-road-from-plastic-waste-wears-out-in-3-months\/","title":{"rendered":"State\u2019s first road from plastic waste wears out in 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The experimental project to construct a road from single-use plastic by Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s (IOC) research and development centre has &#8216;failed&#8217;, as a section of the road has worn out in just three months.<\/p>\n<p>Paved with bituminous and different concentrations of single-use plastic waste, the 850-metre-long road in Sector 13 here was inaugurated by IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh on October 2. It was the first time that single-use plastic was used as one of the ingredients in the construction of a road in the state. The cost of the project had not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experimental project to construct a road from single-use plastic by Indian Oil Corporation&#8217;s (IOC) research and development centre has &#8216;failed&#8217;, as a section of the road has worn out in just three months. Paved with bituminous and different concentrations of single-use plastic waste, the 850-metre-long road in Sector 13 here was inaugurated by IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh on October 2. It was the first time that single-use plastic was used as one of the ingredients in the construction of a road in the state. The cost of the project had not been disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,225,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}