Fulton Hogan’s PlastiPhalt® – the circular economy in action
21 June 2019
It’s filled with plastic but it’s good for the
environment. It shows how the future might look, but it doesn’t
actually look very different.
“It” is a major lay of PlastiPhalt®, the
Fulton Hogan-developed
proprietary
asphalt made with recycled plastic, at
Auckland Airport.
New Zealand CEO Graeme Johnson says PlastiPhalt® is an important
part of Fulton Hogan’s sustainability push. It’s a company-wide team
effort, involving five years of R+D at the Fulton Hogan Laboratories
under National Products Manager Clare Dring, Fulton Hogan’s Recovering
Oil Saves the Environment (R.O.S.E.) scheme, the team behind the
inaugural PlastiPhalt® lay at
Christchurch International Airport and,
now, the on-the-ground team at Auckland Airport.
“It’s the ‘circular economy’ in action – taking a waste stream through
to an environmentally beneficial product to build infrastructure of
critical value to
New Zealand,” Graeme says.
PlastiPhalt® is made with the polymers from recycled plastic oil
containers collected as part of our recovery of around 2.5 million
litres of used oil each year through the R.O.S.E. scheme. The Auckland
Airport lay contains the plastic from almost 70,000 containers.
In high load areas bitumen needs to have a polymer chemically bonded
within it for strength – the oil containers provide this, directly
substituting for imported polymers.
PlastiPhalt® is currently limited to
Auckland and
Christchurch because
of the nature of the production process, requiring close proximity of
the bitumen plant and the source of the recycled plastic polymer.
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