The Plastic Road to Cumbria The Plastic Road to Cumbria | Page 5

These plastic roads are excellent news as they not only offer a unique opportunity for the world to reduce the carbon footprint of constructing roads , but they also reduce the amount of bitumen needed in the asphalt mix , thereby offering enhanced road performance and reducing theamount of maintenance work needed .

The Cumbria County Council trialled this new plastic road at a junction near Calthwaite in the month of December 2016 . The work was carried out on a section of the road that had to undergo frequent repairs due to the number of heavy goods vehicles traveling to the water bottling plant and sand quarry nearby . The trial is expected to prove the durability offered by high density materials and heavy plastics .