recycled plastics for road surfaces

I keep reading that China won't take any more of our recycled plastics. Our country needs to develop new ways to use all of our recycled materials. Here's one that I would think would work well here. 

By Ashley Halsey III Washington Post  October 29, 2018

Until about a year ago, few people had reason to wonder where the plastic they tossed into the recycling bin ended up. It was being made into new bottles, bags, straws, and beach balls, right?
Wrong: Almost half of it was shipped to China. Then, China announced last year that it didn’t want to buy the stuff anymore.
So, what should we do with all that plastic choking the world’s landfills? Why not recycle it and use it to build roads?

Bound together with plastic polymers, the asphalt will be cheaper and last longer than conventional pavement, according to independent experts.

One European firm already is combining plastic pellets with hot-mix asphalt to resurface roadways. A US company says that once it finds financial backing, its product ‘‘could be deployed within six months’’ with a process that combines asphalt milled from the road’s surface with plastic urethane.
Mixing recycled plastic into asphalt is more common in India and Pakistan than in the United States.
‘‘Every country is going to come up with ways to reuse this recycled plastic,’’ said Sahadat Hossain, an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. ‘‘I work with Africa and developing countries. Everywhere you go, they’re building new roads — hundreds of miles of them. We could put a lot of this [plastic] material to use.’’
And an ambitious Dutch company envisions 100-percent-recycled plastic roads built in sectional panels that can be popped into place like Lego blocks. So far, though, its biggest project has been the test of a 98-foot bike path in a city about 60 miles west of Amsterdam.