The melted plastics then coat the aggregate in a thin layer. First, the shredded plastic waste is scattered onto an aggregate of crushed stones and sand before being heated to about 170C – hot enough to melt the waste. It has the benefit of being a very simple process, requiring little high-tech machinery. India alone already generates more than 3.3 million tonnes of plastic a year – which was one of the motivators behind Vasudevan's system for incorporating waste into roads. From Ghana to the Netherlands, building plastic into roads and pathways is helping to save carbon emissions, keep plastic from the oceans and landfill, and improve the life-expectancy of the average road.īy 2040, there is set to be 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic in the environment globally. But a growing number of countries are beginning to follow suit. India has been leading the world in experimenting with plastic-tar roads since the early 2000s. 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.
But far from being an unpleasant journey through a sea of litter, this road is smooth and well-maintained – in fact the plastic that each driver passes over isn't visible to the naked eye.
In a single kilometre, a driver covers one tonne of plastic waste. With our global network of experts, INTERPOL is ideally placed to serve as a centralized hub for research, design, planning, coordination and training to help meet this challenge, within a structure that assures high standards and quality.īy bringing together good practices, successes and lessons learnt from member countries that have successfully hosted major international events, Project Stadia can help future hosts strengthen their own preparations with the latest knowledge and expertise.On a road into New Delhi, countless cars a day speed over tonnes of plastic bags, bottle tops and discarded polystyrene cups. The aim of Project Stadia is to create a Centre of Excellence to help our member countries in planning and executing policing and security preparations for hosting major international events.Įstablished by INTERPOL in 2012 and funded by Qatar, Stadia is a 10-year project will contribute to policing and security arrangements for the 2022 FIFA World Cup™ in Qatar and will leave a lasting legacy for the world’s law enforcement community. Host countries and event owners are faced with the challenge of providing a smooth-running and successful event while keeping event participants and spectators safe and secure. Major international sporting events such as the Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup tournaments present many policing and security challenges for the host countries.Īs well as taking place in large, complex and dispersed locations, major sporting events can attract a range of criminal activities from disorder and violence to cyberattacks and even terrorism. Our partnerships with regional policing bodies.Major Event Safety and Security Conference.Illicit Arms Records and tracing Management System (iARMS).International Child Sexual Exploitation database.SLTD database (travel and identity documents).Integrated Border Management Task Force.Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files.Information, communications and technology (ICT) law projects.Official visitors to the General Secretariat.