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Aus-first road made
to 85 per cent of the paper cups col- lected for recycling in the Penrith LGA throughout 2022.
The fibres from the cups help create a road that's reportedly safer and quieter than regular asphalt with a 24 per cent reduction in carbon footprint.
Pak-Pave roads will also make use of 1.2 million glass stubbies, as well as reclaimed asphalt pavement and steel furnace slag. Altogether, these materi- als will make up over 50 per cent of all materials used in the construction of the roadway.
John Kypreos, director of State Asphalts NSW said, “It is exciting to be delivering a practical circular economy solution, and we hope that other coun- cils and state governments will start specifying Pak-Pave roads.”
Pascoe told PKN that individuals who want to donate paper cups can take them to nearby collection points, which include 7-Eleven stores, shopping centres, office buildings and schools.
Since Simply Cups’ inception, over 30 million paper cups have been collected to be recycled, thus avoiding landfill. ■
with recycled coffee cups
Penrith, New South Wales, has become the first place in Australia to get a road that includes recycled coffee cups in its construction. Will Wain-Williams reports.
Pak-Pave: a road made of recycled coffee cups
THIS SUSTAINABLE ASPHALT is known as Pak-Pave and was developed by State Asphalts NSW in conjunc- tion with Closed Loop Environmental Solutions, which operates the Simply Cups paper recycling program. Closed Loop managing director, Rob Pascoe, told PKN that this project has been three years in the making.
The pilot project for Pak-Pave roads is located along a section of Jamison Road at South Penrith, with a second proj- ect to follow on Swallow Drive, Erskine Park. These two projects will utilise over 135,000 recycled paper cups, including coffee cups, which amounts
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