{"id":525348,"date":"2026-04-11T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525348\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:05:15","slug":"the-scientists-turning-recycled-ocean-plastic-waste-into-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/525348\/","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":525349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-525348","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}