MacRebur has joined forces with Tesco, the Scottish plastic road company, to resurface the car park at its Dumfries MacRebur Extra branch with the equivalent of 225,000 plastic bags. The resfurfacing used 900kg of waste plastics that would otherwise have been incinerated or sent to landfill. The equivalent weight in fossil fuels is also saved from extraction and the carbon footprint is reduced by 1,044kg. Tesco added the plastics to an asphalt mix in order to produce the surface material. MacRebur said that it hopes to work with Tesco on future waste plastics projects.
Tesco has joined forces with MacRebur, the Scottish plastic road company, to resurface the car park at its Dumfries Tesco Extra branch with the equivalent of 225,000 plastic bags. The resfurfacing used 900kg of waste plastics that would otherwise have been incinerated or sent to landfill. The equivalent weight in fossil fuels is also saved from extraction and the carbon footprint is reduced by 1,044kg. MacRebur added the plastics to an asphalt mix in order to produce the surface material. Tesco said that it hopes to work with MacRebur on future waste plastics projects.