After reading Brandon Pearl’s blog article, “Vancouver Gets Even Greener,” I feel that, yes, the City of Vancouver is becoming greener with their usage of plastic bottles in asphalt pavements, but is this news article just something to make Vancouver look good?

Out of all the usage of plastic bottles, melting them and combining it with asphalt is the choice they select. Again, I agree with their points of being green, but what happens when they tare the asphalt and replace them again? The removed asphalt goes to some landfill with the plastic fused together.

A better alternative would be for a business to develop some kind of pavement that is sustainable and durable, while maintaining a similar cost. By developing an environmentally friendly material for the road, it’s obviously beneficial for the environment, but also it would create a big impact for the world as there are millions of kilometres of asphalt roads. Most importantly, by creating a more durable material, there would be less of a need to replace the road. The concern about pollution during the manufacturing and paving of asphalt is lessened if there isn’t as much of a need for asphalt anyways.