(Energy Analytics Institute, Ian Silverman, 10.Jul.2018) – A small Central American country will be considered a pioneer in the region with use of a type of “eco-friendly asphalt” that gives a new life to plastics.
This week the Costa Rican government announced the country would begin to pave streets with a mixture of asphalt and crushed plastics thanks to a development by the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models, the University of Costa Rica and several recycling organizations, reported the daily newspaper LaRed21.
The “green asphalt” is already used in other countries such as England, India and Canada, but Costa Rica will be the first from the Latin American region to implement the process.
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