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The Philippines is making roads and cement with plastic garbage →

January 28, 2020 by Oliver Gordon

Philippine companies like San Miguel Corp. and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. are using discarded shopping bags, sachet wrappers and plastic packaging to fire cement plants and build roads as the country embarks on an 8 trillion-peso ($157 billion) infrastructure push through 2022. BLOOMBERG

January 28, 2020 /Oliver Gordon
the philippines, roads, cement, plastic waste
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