Vietnam’s first recycled plastic-made road being built in Hai Phong
Vietnam’s first asphalt road containing recycled plastics is being constructed at the Deep C Industrial Complex in the northern port city of Hai Phong with technological consultancy from Dow Vietnam.
Vietnam’s first asphalt road containing recycled plastics is being constructed at the Deep C Industrial Complex in the northern port city of Hai Phong. (Photo: VNA)
Hai Phong (VNA) – Vietnam’s first asphalt road containing recycled plastics isbeing constructed at the Deep C Industrial Complex in the northern port city ofHai Phong with technological consultancy from Dow Vietnam.
Work on theroad’s first 200m-long section began last week and isexpected to complete on October 1. The quality of this stretch will bemonitored and evaluated before the second section, 1.2km in length, to bedeveloped in November.
Earlier, theplastics were collected, cleaned, dried and shredded before being mixed with theasphalt and melted at high temperature, said Do Quang Hung, Deep C’s firstDeputy General Director.
The companywants to pioneer in buildingand turning industrial zonesinto eco-industrial parks, he added.
Dow has been present in Vietnam since1995, serving customers in the consumer care, infrastructure andpackaging industries. Advancing a circular economy was identified as oneof Dow’s 2025 Sustainability Goals in 2015.
Roads built with recycled plasticdemonstrated that plastic waste can be a valuable renewable resource andcontribute toward a plastics circular economy. The firm has committed to ending plastic waste, in part by finding innovative waysto transform plastic waste into new products.
DEEP C was founded in 1997 by Belgian andVietnamese shareholders. It is one of the leading industrial parkdevelopers in Vietnam with over 3000 hectares of land and ready-built-factories forlease in Hai Phong and neighbouring Quang Ninh province.
Thepartnership between Dow Vietnam and Deep C in this project is expected tocontribute to advancing a circular economy in Vietnam and developing better endmarkets for plastic waste./.
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Vietnam’s first asphalt road containing recycled plastics is being constructed at the Deep C Industrial Complex in the northern port city of Hai Phong. (Photo: VNA)
