In 2016, Cumbria began trialling waste-plastic roads; a year later, an A7 project reused 500,000 bottles or 800,000 bags; five years later, the trials were deemed successful

• Kingstown Road and Scotland Road form one of the main routes into Carlisle, and by autumn 2017 they had a new skin.
• Some of the bitumen holding the asphalt together had been replaced with pellets made from waste plastic.
• Cumbria, an area in England, wanted to make roads the better way.