In 2021, Shanghai used 6,000 milk bottles to fight plastic waste; the result became China's 1st plastic road, turning hard-to-recycle bottles into useful paving material

Finding useful applications for difficult-to-recycle plastic can help keep waste out of landfills and waterways while creating fresh possibilities for everyday infrastructure. In Shanghai, a partnership between Dow and Shiny Meadow illustrated how used milk bottles and other plastic waste could be given another purpose by incorporating recycled plastic into road construction.

China’s First “Plastic Road” Project