Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges, or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...

White plastic road-curb sticks are being installed all over D.C. ... A case in point is the McLean Gardens plaza that has a fountain. Now the small plaza looks like a black-and-white bar code.

Plastic will amount to about 10 per cent of the mix. ... The Corporation has taken into account the case of Jambulingam Street in Nungambakkam, where such a road was laid seven years ago.

This is not bureaucratic fraidy-cat risk-averseness. This is fiscally responsible risk-averseness. Edmonds hadn't even heard of using recycled plastic to make roads in India.

“We were the first ones to put this material out on a real road under real traffic,” Buttlar said. “The plastic or plastic waste, in this case, is chemically compatible with asphalt.

They are looking to pave the plastic road on a low volume road like a residential street and have it completed by this summer. More from CBS News. Hazmat spill closes portion of I-30 in Arlington.

Millions of plastic bags were recycled into an asphalt mixture to pave a 4,000-foot stretch of Foundry Road in South Sioux City.

Rather than plastic bags going in the garbage or rolling around farm fields, South Sioux City wanted to put them to better use. This new road, near Siouxland Freedom Park, was paved Wednesday morning.