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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which company constructed a 0.85 km of road with plastic waste at Faridabad?
A
ITC
B
Indian Oil
C
ONGC
D
Bharat Petroleum
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Bengaluru also successfully constructed more than 2,000 km roads with waste plastic. The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) has mandated the use of plastics for arterial roads. The state of Assam also started to use the same.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 850-meter road outside IOC’s R&D Centre in Faridabad used about 16 metric tonnes of waste plastic from single-use carry bags/packaging film waste.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is simply a part of the road. This road, stretching from New Delhi to nearby Meerut, was laid using a system developed by Rajagopalan Vasudevan, a professor of chemistry at the Thiagarajar College of Engineering in India, which replaces 10% of a road’s bitumen with repurposed plastic waste.

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