{"id":107436,"date":"2020-05-22T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sa-gets-its-first-plastic-road"},"modified":"2020-05-22T01:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T08:03:26","slug":"sa-gets-its-first-plastic-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/sa-gets-its-first-plastic-road","title":{"rendered":"SA Gets Its First Plastic Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sa-gets-its-first-plastic-road.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you recycle the equivalent of 1,8 million single use plastic bags, and resolve South Africa\u2019s pothole problem? Roll out plastic roads, of course!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what the Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape is in the process of doing \u2013 and the benefits to road users are manifold.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of a plastic road isn\u2019t a new one. Several years ago, companies in Scotland and the USA pioneered the idea of breaking down plastic waste, and adding it to asphalt. Now, there are thousands of kilometres of plastic roads all over the world, from Australia, the UK and New Zealand to India, Turkey, Slovenia and now South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you recycle the equivalent of 1,8 million single use plastic bags, and resolve South Africa\u2019s pothole problem? Roll out plastic roads, of course! That\u2019s exactly what the Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape is in the process of doing \u2013 and the benefits to road users are manifold. The concept of a plastic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}