What if the roads could be paved with recycled textile materials?
The idea is a significant innovation in itself.
The idea is a new collaboration between The Formary and Wellington City Council.
Wellington roads could be paved with recycled materials from cotton t-shirts.
The project is still in the early planning stages but, according to The Formary’s creative director Bernadette Casey, the New Zealand-made product was outperforming the European alternative in tests.
Bernadette Casey, the co-founder of Usedfully and The Formary, said about the extracted material from the textile waste stopped the bitumen seeping out of tarmac, “It gets shredded, extruded, and then mixed with the bitumen – like making a cake.”
If collaboration and research work could go ahead, we could use our textile waste to transform our roads and infrastructures.
