{"id":887357,"date":"2026-04-11T18:07:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887357\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:07:22","slug":"the-scientists-turning-recycled-ocean-plastic-waste-into-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887357\/","title":{"rendered":"The scientists turning recycled ocean plastic waste into roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team of scientists from the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu run a program called Nets-to-Roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Through this, the team of marine biologists collect and sort through ocean plastic waste made from a durable type of plastic called polyethylene, which is found in milk bottles, yoghurt pots and fishing nets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Once collected and sorted the team then sent the waste to the US, where it was shredded and ground into tiny pieces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From there it was returned back to Hawaii and taken to a pavement production facility, where it was mixed with other ingredients to make asphalt &#8211; the material used to make roads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hot mix was then loaded onto trucks and used to pave some test roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team of scientists from the Center for Marine Debris Research at Hawaii Pacific University in Honolulu run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-887357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116387410468209861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}