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1 lakh km of road built using plastic waste, Govt aims to double it

Delhi-Meerut highway. It has also been used in
constructing the road connecting Dhaula Kuan to the
airport in Delhi .The central government has been using
plastic waste in road construction to properly utilise the
material which otherwise is not recycled. So far, one
lakh kilometre of road has been constructed using plastic
waste, Hindustan Times' sister publication Hindustan
reported. The construction of every kilometre of road
required nine tonnes of bitumen and one tonne of plastic
waste. This means for every kilometre of road, one
tonne bitumen is saved, which costs about Rs 30,000.
Plastic roads consist of 6-8 per cent plastic, while 92-94
per cent is bitumen. The Municipal Corporation of
Gurugram (MCG) used plastic waste in its roads for the
Plastic waste has been used in constructing one lakh
kilometre of road in 11 states and according to reports first time in 2018. The MCG has now made the use of
the figure will double in this financial year. Union plastic waste mandatory in the construction of arterial
minister Nitin Gadkari had announced the usage of roads. Assam started using the waste material from this
year. India generates at least 25,940 tonnes of plastic
plastic waste in road construction in 2016. Since then
Plastic has been used in the 270-kilometre-long Jammu waste daily, equivalent to the weight of around 4,300
Kashmir National highway. About 1.6 tonne of plastic elephants. Of this, about 60 per cent gets recycled,
according to the Union environment ministry.
waste was used in the two-kilometre-long stretch of

LG Polymer Officials arrested on poor safety protocols
Exactly two months after 12 people were killed and
thousands affected in a gas leak in Andhra Pradesh's
Visakhapatnam on May 7, the local police on July 7, 2020
arrested 12 people in connection with the case.
Visakhapatnam Police arrested three top executives of
LG Polymers, a police official said that a development
that comes two months after a gas leak near the port
town killed 12 people and caused some 585 people to fall
sick. The 12 people who have been arrested, are
associated with LG Polymers, gas leak from whose
chemical plant caused the tragedy on the day. The
leaked gas was identified as styrene. “CEO and two Commissioner of Police (ACP), Visakhapatnam, said,
directors of LG Polymers arrested in connection with the “Visakhapatnam Police arrests 12 people associated
styrene vapour leak near Visakhapatnam on May 7,” with LG Polymer Company management in connection
Police Commissioner RK Meena told PTI over the phone. A with gas leakage incident which took place on May 7th
case had been registered against LG Polymers on May 7, that had claimed the lives of 12 people”. Besides the top
on the day of the incident, by Gopalapatnam Police executives, eight other officials of the South Korean
under various sections of IPC at RR Venkatapuram, the company have been arrested. The report blamed the
village on the outskirts of the city, where the incident incident on slack safety protocols and total breakdown
took place. In a statement, Swaroopa Rani, Assistant of the emergency response procedures at the plant.

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