India is now using plastic as the raw material behind 40,000+ km of roads across India.
While countries like 🇳🇱 Netherlands and 🇬🇧 UK are still testing plastic paths in 700m patches. In India, we’re scaling it across states.
Each kilometre of plastic road reuses nearly 1 ton of plastic waste, that’s millions of bags saved from choking rivers or burning in backyards.
Under Nitin Gadkari’s leadership, plastic is rewriting its legacy, not in bins, but beneath our wheels.
As of 2024, India has laid down:
40,000+ km of rural roads
2,900 km of national highways
All using plastic waste. That’s more than the entire circumference of Earth. 🌍
And here’s where it gets wild:
> 13,000 km were added just in the last 2 years
> Plastic roads are now mandatory in national highway projects
> 80 lakh tonnes of garbage, gone from landfills, now part of roads like the Delhi-Mumbai corridor
And the roads last longer, hold stronger, and need less maintenance. Win-win. 🙌
Sometimes the future is right under your feet, built not from concrete vision boards, but from the trash we once gave up on.
Because in India, even waste gets a second chance.
Agreed?