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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Sharon Liptrott

Dumfriesshire technology helps create public roads in New York

New York has created its first public roads made by using waste plastic thanks to innovative technology developed in Dumfriesshire.

The city’s department of transportation is running trials with materials produced by Lockerbie-based MacRebur.

The company, named after founders Toby McCartney, Gordon Reid and Nick Burnett, has developed a way of turning plastic waste into roads and car parks.

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