There's been numerous articles that have come out in regards to how bad this is. The plastic in the roadways generates microplastics and nanoplastics that run off into the sides of the road and reach places that they wouldn't have otherwise. It's important to use plastic, but not if it's going to cause significant ecological damage over time.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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If the best idea for solving a pollution problem is to stuff it inside cconstruction, then humanity really isn't getting on top of this.
Do we not need to worry about the plastic leaching into its surroundings?
 yes. Yes we do.
How much PFAS is in the runoff I wonder?
All of it.
I thought asphalt was already the most recycled material.
It is. Apparently we need a lot more roads than even that reuse can meet, and that demand has its own consequences.
Public transit and other more efficient means of transport all make more sense than cars.
The title is batshit.
2 options; we add editorial bias and change it (which I've done to a couple), or just ignore it as news.
Option 2 bothers me the most because then we miss what's out there. You need to read about the shit to know what's good.
This is an incredibly stupid idea.
Asphalt is one of the single most recycled materials in the world already. Why would you mess with that?
Now you want to introduce plastic into that when we already have a microplastics problem from other sources.