Plastic roads aren't recycling, and it's not green - it's toxic waste disposal. The reason they are getting traction is because at first glance it sounds like

Plastic roads aren't recycling, and it's not green - it's toxic waste disposal. The reason they are getting traction is because at first glance it sounds like a great idea. Only when you think about the detail that you start to realise that unintended consequences. The question to really focus on is "why are environmentalists so obsessed with keeping plastic out of landfill?". Environmentalists will go to almost any length to keep plastic out of landfill. But WHY? The safest place for plastic waste is in landfill, not out in the environment distributed everywhere as microplastics. In Australia there's a ridiculous utter obsession with "recycling plastic", as though it is some sort of solution to the plastic problem. Recycling plastic is not a solution because the flow of plastic is so utterly gargantuan that no amount of recycling can get on top of it. And that is when governments that are under pressure to do something about it turn to plastic roads. "What are we going to do with this firehose of waste plastic? Well we CANNOT put it in landfill because landfill is the worst thing in the world, so we must put it in roads."