Question

How has plastic waste been converted into resource by Ahmed Khan of Bengaluru? What value can be learnt from it?

Answer 1

Ahmed Khan was a plastic sack manufacturer of Bengaluru. He used to purchase waste plastic and recycle the same into manufacture of plastic sacks. The process was quite cumbersome and the product was not of good quality. He converted waste plastic into a fine powder called polyblend. He mixed his polyblend with bitumen and found that road carpeted with the mixture had better water repellent property and that the road life increased by three times. Today many hundred kilometres of roads have been carpeted by bitumen-polyblend mixture. The rag pickers could also earn a better price for plastic waste.
The conversion of plastic waste into polyblend clearly shows that wastes can be changed into a resource through human efforts. This will solve the problem of huge wastes being generated by modem human society.