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San Miguel Corp makes roads from plastic waste

24 January 2020, Published under Cement News

San Miguel Corp and Aboitz Equity Ventures Inc are using old plastic shopping bags, sachet wrappers and plastic packaging in their asphalt road mix to meet the Philippines' need for its US$157bn ‘Build, Build, Build’ infrastructure programme. The companies' new road surface material was developed with Dow Chemical and was first laid in November 2019, when 900kg of plastic was incorporated to pave a 1500m 2 test site near Manila.
 Aboitiz's Republic Cement & Building Materials Inc also use...