{"id":595,"date":"2017-05-10T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=595"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:02:11","slug":"from-the-web-uk-tests-cheaper-longer-lasting-roads-made-with-recycled-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/10\/from-the-web-uk-tests-cheaper-longer-lasting-roads-made-with-recycled-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: UK tests cheaper, longer-lasting roads made with recycled plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-596\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1422\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM.png 1422w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-10-at-2.48.16-PM-500x274.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Around 24.8 million miles of roads crisscross the surface of Earth. And hundreds of millions of barrels of oil have been used to build them. Engineer <strong>Toby McCartney<\/strong>\u00a0has come up with a solution to that waste of natural resources and the growing plastic pollution problem. His company, Scotland-based <strong>MacRebur<\/strong>, lays roads that are as much as 60 percent stronger than regular asphalt roads and last around 10 times longer \u2013 and they\u2019re made with <em>recycled plastic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/uk-tests-cheaper-longer-lasting-roads-made-with-recycled-plastic\/\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via inhabitat)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 24.8 million miles of roads crisscross the surface of Earth. And hundreds of millions of barrels of oil have been used to build them. Engineer Toby McCartney\u00a0has come up with a solution to that waste of natural resources and the growing plastic pollution problem. His company, Scotland-based MacRebur, lays roads that are as much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/05\/10\/from-the-web-uk-tests-cheaper-longer-lasting-roads-made-with-recycled-plastic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: UK tests cheaper, longer-lasting roads made with recycled plastic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-9B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}