{"id":342255,"date":"2020-03-17T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T07:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=342255"},"modified":"2020-03-17T13:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T07:35:51","slug":"bro-builds-roads-with-waste-plastic-in-hilly-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bro-builds-roads-with-waste-plastic-in-hilly-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"BRO builds roads with waste plastic in hilly areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), which builds and maintains the strategic roads, has begun a trial project of constructing strategic roads connecting mountain areas with the use of waste plastic. \u201cA directive for trial was issued by BRO Director General Lt Gen Harpal Singh for construction of roads using waste plastic material.<\/p>\n<p>Six roads in border states passing through difficult mountainous terrain and inclement weather conditions were identified for the trial.\u201d sources in BRO said. The roads identified are in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram where the top layer of road surface will be constructed with Bituminous Concrete blended with certain percentage of shredded waste plastic material as pilot study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO), which builds and maintains the strategic roads, has begun a trial project of constructing strategic roads connecting mountain areas with the use of waste plastic. \u201cA directive for trial was issued by BRO Director General Lt Gen Harpal Singh for construction of roads using waste plastic material. Six roads in border states passing through difficult mountainous terrain and inclement weather conditions were identified for the trial.\u201d sources in BRO said. The roads identified are in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram where the top layer of road surface will be constructed [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,209,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342255","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=342255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}