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 company used 900 kg 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 plastic content is reduced by 1,044 kg . MacRebur added the plastics to an asphalt pavement in order to produce the surface material . it said that it hopes to work with MacRebur on future waste recycling 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.