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A revolutionary new tarmac product made from discarded plastic has been used in a major Scottish Water regeneration project in Glasgow.

Robertson, the main contractor at the newly-opened The Events Complex Aberdeen (TECA), has completed work to provide a temporary area for parking which has been made from asphalt containing three tonnes of waste plastic – the equivalent of 240,000 used plastic bottles.

Balfour Beatty has saved more than one million plastic bags from landfill by utilising waste plastic asphalt on a cycle lane in a UK first.

Springfield Properties has taken a major step towards making its developments more environmentally sustainable after becoming the UK’s first housebuilder to use waste plastic to build a road on a housing development. (from left) Dave Main, managing director north (Springfield Properties; Sarah