‘One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure’
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“1 tonne of plastic is used to make just 1 kilometre of road. Now just imagine if we our earth is free from a burden of 10 lakh carry bags that’s roughly 1 tonne of plastic, will it not be effective?” A simple statement by a 72-year-old Chemistry professor from Madurai’s Thiagarajar College of Engineering that is staggering in its implications. Can plastic, long seen as a scourge, a material that is slowly clogging and destroying our environment, actually be used for something good? Professor Rajagopalan Vasudevan certainly thinks so and is the brain behind this radical idea – constructing roads with plastic waste.
Just last year, his technology was used to build 1,244 kilometers of roads across 7 states in India. In the last couple of years, 1 lakh kilometers of roads have been constructed using plastic waste.
