I think this is an interesting idea, and at the same time I'm curious as to how much something like this justifies the continued production of new plastic. Not saying it does, but it's something to consider. What I think would be especially cool is if it'd be possible to build roads like this using materials from the Great Pacific garbage patch, although I'm not sure how easy removing the plastic (which are very small pieces) would be. The other consideration is not that we don't have use for recycled plastic, but that we just simply don't recycle plastic very much. Even when you toss it in your recycle bin, that's hardly a guarantee that it'll be recycled, for a variety of reasons.

Just some brain-dump thoughts. Thanks for linking this!

I've always felt for whatever reason that the Netherlands have always had a cartoonish feel in terms of their landscape, and plastic, colored roads would only add to that. Not to say that it isn't cool or innovative, because it's totally both those things

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Shut up and take my money! I need a lot of that on my property, asphalt is expensive!

Roads can be pretty complex things to build. I'm wondering how production of infininately varying curves and pitches will be handled. I'm guessing on-site molding machines of some sort will be needed, both for construction and repair.

Reminds me of solar roadways: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#/story

My understanding is that there has been lots of better alternatives for road materials than we use now, but at least in the U.S. part of the reason against utilizing something more "hardy" is to maintain construction jobs. Pretty much the same argument against automating jobs.