Indiscipline and the ever growing population in Lagos and Nigeria as a whole, has given birth to a menace that might choke us up if it's not curtailed.Yes, I am referring to plastic bottles.

One person dropping a plastic bottle on the road may seem harmless, but imagine a million people replicating this bad habit, we would be left with a filthy environment and clogged drainages, which gives rise to flood.

Just take a look at this :


Image credit: awarenessng

I would save the sermon of indiscipline for another day. Let's talk about plastic roads. You are not alone, I was shocked the first time I heard the term. But they already exist.

Plastic roads are made entirely of plastic or of composites of plastic with other materials, unlike regular roads made with asphalt.

While the idea of plastic roads are relatively new, some countries like India, UK, US, Indonesia are already making some progress in building plastic roads.In January 2019, The Department of Transport announced a £1.6 million(approx. 700M Naira) UK trial of a plastic road technology developed by MacRebur, an asphalt enhancement company based in Scotland.

There are more than 34,000 km of plastic roads in India, mostly in rural areas. More than half of the roads in the southern state of Tamil Nadu are plastic.

Although, it has its disadvantages, the advantages outweigh regular asphalt concrete roads. Plastic-bitumen composite roads have better wear resistance, this means less potholes and less repairs.

Thinking about all the plastic bottles I see when I travel through Lagos, I am forced to think about the possibilities of a pothole free Nigeria, using recycled plastics.This should drastically reduce the massive over-inflated budgets allocated to building and fixing roads. Let's not forget that getting rid of these plastic bottles would also reduce the issue of clogged drainages which lead to floods.

What are your thoughts about this, we would like to hear from you.

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By Donald3d

https://autojosh.com/plastic-roads-the-possible-end-of-pot-holes-and-flood-in-nigeria/

Good development. I hope Nigeria will key in. However, what about heat?

This is a welcome idea to Nigeria, never heard of this but I couldn’t help but look it up to have more knowledge on this discourse!
It’s safe to say it’s a very beautiful idea cause the problem of fixing badly tarred road year in and out will be minimal to reasonable extent, there’s no harm in absorbing this beautiful idea

We have plastic road in Delhi.

Alright

plastic surgery

If plastic road is now the in-thing then many countries that want to go that way shld not bother hw they are going to source for plastics.
Lagos and Abia empty rubbers shld cover the a large kilometres of their road.

If car get burnt on it there will be problem.

Good idea... But I'm looking at the disadvantages e.g fire on plastics, I hope the road will still stand

plastics, the menace of the world.

This is actually cool.

There is a school in southwest that allows parents pay school fees of their wards using plastic waste, I've been wandering what the school does with it but now I know better

Can it withstand heat. There is a reason why asphalt and car tyres are black. Or are they going to make use of black plastics only?

Excellent idea on the surface. What do our engineers in the house think about it?

Your articles are always so well written, Autojosh. So whatt happened here? This was the disgraceful article written by one of your writers.

https://www.nairaland.com/5381258/truck-conveying-excreta-falls-odo#81623213

Yahman1:

Imagine Plastic roads in Northern Naija, hot sun go melt them, with the kind heat were dey there

This is where you're ignorant about engineering design. Don't you think the engineers building that road won't take that into consideration? It's the first thing they'll consider before anything else, but then the hatred for the north.........

This is a beautiful idea if well implemented.

Btw, Lagos state government claimed to be repairing damaged roads. They will block half of those roads for 2-3 weeks claiming they are repairing it just to open the road and discover the contractors left a bad part which slows down traffic even more than usual. After 4weeks, contractors will return back to the road for another repair/maintenance.

What exactly is the issue?

gwarotango:
This is where you're ignorant about engineering design. Don't you think the engineers building that road won't take that into consideration? It's the first thing they'll consider before anything else, but the hatred for the north.........

Shuuu
I just stated the reality not hatred. If u have been to the north same thought would pop up your mind

Coal tar did not last. Cement did not survive. How do you think plastic will live to see another morning? Waste in Lagos and Nigeria in general is poorly manage. Other countries take plastic drinks as well, but they were able to contain it.

Yahman1:
Shuuu
I just stated the reality not hatred. If u have been to the north same thought would pop up your mind

Are you an engineer? If you're not then you're totally incompetent to have an opinion on the technicalities of this project

nicepoker101:
Can it withstand heat. There is a reason why asphalt and car tyres are black. Or are they going to make use of black plastics only?

Black plastic? Are you for real or just joking ?

nuban07:
Good idea... But I'm looking at the disadvantages e.g fire on plastics, I hope the road will still stand

It's not 100 percent plastic , its a hybrid mix of plastic and other regular road material

FarahAideed:


Black plastic? Are you for real or just joking ?

I am on the fence

I come to Nairaland for posts like this

Yahman1:
Shuuu
I just stated the reality not hatred. If u have been to the north same thought would pop up your mind

You're right about the heat.... But.... The engineers already thought of that too and worked their way around it.... These kinda roads exist in india..... The temperature over their sometimes is equal or higher than that of the north.....

These are not just ordinary plastics.....They're Plastic composite roads....... More like reinforcing Asphalt with plastic so as to improve the wear resistance.

There's need for global adoption of this and both plastic and nylon wastes would be things of the past.

Many things to consider. Cost and hazard implication. Hope it will be safe for road users? If all these can be taken care of, I believe we can propose this to ministry of transport coz I doubt if they do any research at all.

Thanks for the info. Lemme Google search it

Imagine boys burning tyres during festivities, road go just catch fire.

I doubt we are disciplined enough for such innovation.

Na wa o