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00:00Plastic road has become very important in the world today.
00:06In fact, the Central Government has introduced the GEO.
00:11What is the GEO?
00:13If a road is to be built, it has to be a plastic road.
00:16No matter what kind of road it is, it has to be a plastic road all over India.
00:21This technology has become so important in the goodness of God.
00:27Even foreign countries are planning to buy this technology.
00:35In Malaysia, they are planning to build a plastic road.
00:37In Indonesia, they are planning to build a road.
00:39In other countries, they are planning to build a road.
00:41Because of this, a small innovation in this lab has become very important in the world today.
00:48What is the reason for all this?
00:51In 2000, there was a sudden awareness to ban plastic.
01:00At that time, there were only 7000 plastic industries in Tamil Nadu.
01:11One lakh people were working.
01:13If we ban it, so many people will lose their jobs.
01:16When there was a sudden awareness to ban plastic, we thought that we should do something about it.
01:22If we make plastic useful, there will be no problem.
01:27The problem is only when we throw away the plastic.
01:29If we create a demand for it, there will be no problem.
01:33How can we make it useful?
01:35Plastic is a petroleum product.
01:38It is a product that comes from a thread.
01:40Therefore, if we mix plastic with that thread,
01:44it becomes a road.
01:46If the quality of the thread improves, the road will also improve.
01:50We can do this.
01:52I started with this idea.
01:54When I started, my ex-president Abdul Kalam came to our college in Tirunelveli.
02:05I told him about this.
02:07He said, Vasudevan, it is a very good idea.
02:09Please do it.
02:11It started that day and it is going well.
02:13The technology is very simple.
02:15We take a stone.
02:17We take a roadside stone.
02:19We take the stone and heat it for 107 degrees.
02:21We cut the plastic.
02:23You can see.
02:25I have cut the plastic.
02:27This is the roadside plastic.
02:29We cut it into small pieces.
02:31We cut it into small pieces.
02:33We cut it into small pieces.
02:35We cut it into small pieces.
02:37We put the plastic on the stone.
02:39It will be coated.
02:42It will be coated well.
02:44If we put that mixture on the road,
02:46it will last for 15 to 20 years.
02:48The road will be good.
02:50There will be no potholes.
02:52There will be no cracks.
02:54The road will be good.
02:56The central government has officially declared this.
02:58The government is saying that the plastic road is very good.
03:00The government is saying that the plastic road is very good.
03:02It has developed well.
03:04The advantage of this is that
03:06if we put a 1km road,
03:08if we put a single lane road,
03:10one tonne of plastic will be used.
03:12One tonne of plastic means
03:1410 lakh carry bags will be used
03:16in just 1km.
03:18In India, there are
03:2064 lakh km roads.
03:22If we put a 64 lakh km
03:24multi-lane road,
03:26I will need
03:28500 to 600 lakh tonnes
03:30of plastic.
03:32But in India,
03:34there are only 30 to 35 tonnes.
03:36I need 600 tonnes.
03:38Here, we get only 30-35 tons of plastic.
03:40Therefore, we can use the existing plastic well and build a road out of it.
03:45That road is good for 15 years.
03:47It can carry loads.
03:49Today, I can carry 40 tons of load in a truck and get a road that can carry it.
03:56At the same time, the amount of tar used is decreasing.
04:00Plastic is not wasted and it can be used.
04:03Plastic is in demand.
04:05That is why I say, not to ban but to plan.
04:08Instead of banning plastic, it is better to plan, collect and use it.
04:13Then, we can get good roads.
04:15There are 25 lakhs of kilometres of roads that go to rural areas.
04:21It is enough to use those roads.
04:23We can get good facilities for the village.
04:25Village is our life.
04:27In India, 65-75% of the villages are rural areas.
04:31Only the food products produced there can make the city live.
04:36To provide good transportation,
04:38if we want to build a road, we don't need to build a road for 20 years.
04:41God has given this world to the world through plastic.
04:47It is very good and very successful.
04:50It has been approved today.
04:52In India, 3 lakhs of kilometres of roads are being built in all states.
04:56In 12-13 states, they are building it.
05:00The Rural Department has already declared to use 15% of the roads in plastic.
05:05Now, the government has said to use all of it.
05:08They are using plastic roads all over the border roads.
05:11It is going successfully.
05:13This is a good effort by God.
05:16Plastic is being used all over.
05:18The plastic that I use for this is films.
05:22Films are carrying bags.
05:25Chocolate paper, kurkure paper, multi-layer paper,
05:30all these are not difficult to use.
05:33What we have to do is, we have to collect them.
05:36What we do at home is,
05:38we put everything together and make it difficult.
05:40If we put plastic separately and put organic separately,
05:43we have to collect the plastic separately,
05:45put it in the sun and dry it.
05:48We don't have to separate it.
05:50Everything can be collected.
05:52You can use milk packet, kurkure paper,
05:55put everything together and dry it.
05:57You can give it to the machine and cut it.
05:59If you cut it like this,
06:01then you can use it.
06:03Therefore, the process is,
06:05collect it, dry it, cut it, put it.
06:09It is done.
06:1130 seconds extra effort is required.
06:13You need an extra person.
06:15You get a wonderful road.
06:17Maintenance expenses are not even 15 years.
06:19It is a very simple technique.
06:22You can use plastic easily.
06:24All plastic available use.
06:26The whole world is asking for this technology.
06:28Because plastic is available everywhere.
06:31It is a very important technique.
06:33It is a very useful technique.
06:35The government appreciates it.
06:37Because it is socially relevant,
06:39I think they would have given me this award.
06:41I gave it for 10 years.
06:43They gave it because it is useful.
06:45This technology is very good.
06:47We put the plastic road first in Koilpatti.
06:51We put it in Chennai.
06:53We put it in our college in 2004.
06:55We put it in many places.
06:57We put it in our college in 2004.
06:59Today, the road is good.
07:01There is no problem.
07:03All the roads outside are good.
07:05But,
07:07if you give a contract,
07:09they will give it for 3-5 years.
07:11After that,
07:13there is a compulsion to put it back.
07:15Even if it is a good road,
07:17they will give it back.
07:20Even if it is a bad road,
07:22they will give it back.
07:24But, there is no problem with our road.
07:26There is another technique.
07:28If there is a road that has already been put,
07:30what should we do?
07:32We scrape the surface.
07:34We keep 50% of it.
07:3650% plastic coated stone is there.
07:38If we put two mixed roads,
07:40the height of the road will not increase.
07:42If it increases,
07:44water will come inside the house.
07:46Without that,
07:48we save 50% of the existing material.
07:50Cost wise,
07:5250% is reduced.
07:54Quality wise, the road is good.
07:56So, we scrape the surface.
07:58We put a road near Vizhupuram
08:00and showed it.
08:02The road is successful.
08:04That is also good.
08:06The technology now...
08:08Actually,
08:10when the technology was developed,
08:12America asked me for the technology.
08:14They asked me to give it to them.
08:17I said, I will give them 300 million dollars.
08:19They gave me 300 million dollars.
08:21I asked my Guru.
08:23There is a Guru called God.
08:25I asked him.
08:27God has given this technology
08:29to do good for the country.
08:31He did not give it to earn money.
08:33He gave it for free to the country.
08:35Similarly, I have given the whole technology
08:37for free.
08:39I have given the patent to the college.
08:41So,
08:43they are using it all over India.
08:45We are giving the whole technology
08:47to other countries.
08:49We have given it to Malaysia, Indonesia,
08:51Kenya,
08:53Congo,
08:55many countries.
08:57South African countries
08:59are coming one by one.
09:01We are giving it to everyone.
09:03There is a procedure.
09:05If we follow that procedure
09:07and give the whole technology,
09:09it is pure.
09:11If we do not use plastic,
09:14it will burn.
09:16If it burns, carbon dioxide will come.
09:18If carbon dioxide comes, global warming will come.
09:20So, the carbon footprint will be lower.
09:22Since I am using plastic,
09:24it does not burn.
09:26I am just melting it.
09:28No carbon dioxide.
09:30It is an environmentally friendly technique.
09:32Easy technique. Cheap technique.
09:34Use of waste plastic.
09:36Bitumen is saved.
09:38Natural bitumen is saved.
09:40Therefore, this technology
09:42is a blessing.
09:44Waste is not created.
09:46Man created it.
09:48There is no waste.
09:50Man does not know
09:52how to use it.
09:54There is a use for everything.
09:56Plastic is not decomposed.
09:58Therefore,
10:00it should be thrown away.
10:04I would say it is wrong.
10:06There are many things
10:08that are not decomposed in the world.
10:11For example, there is a stone.
10:13Does it decompose?
10:15It does not decompose.
10:17Since it is a stone,
10:19we can build a house with it.
10:21Similarly, there is gold.
10:23Does it decompose?
10:25It should be thrown away.
10:27Similarly, plastic does not decompose.
10:29But if plastic is melted,
10:31it becomes a beautiful adhesive.
10:33It becomes a paste.
10:35Since we use it,
10:37the load is good.
10:39It is not wrong.
10:41It is a plus point.
10:43I can build a road without it.
10:45We have developed other materials.
10:47These materials are
10:49called plastone.
10:51Plastone is made of tiles.
10:53Plastic and stone
10:55are mixed together.
10:57Plastic has no sand,
10:59no bitumen,
11:01no water,
11:03no cement.
11:05Plastic is like granite.
11:08Plastic is stronger than granite.
11:10Plastic is cheaper than granite.
11:12Poor man's granite.
11:14This is called plastone.
11:16Similarly, we have used ceramics.
11:18What can we do with solid waste?
11:20With this,
11:22we can make a play like this.
11:24This is called a fire block.
11:26Normally, people use cement
11:28to build platforms and roads.
11:30Now, I have used
11:32plastone to build it.
11:34Stone is also made of plastic.
11:36Plastic is used as a binder
11:38for carrying bags.
11:40Bottles are used as fillers.
11:42There are 10 bottles in this.
11:44So, we can use water and plastic.
11:46It is 10 times stronger
11:48than concrete.
11:50This is bullet proof.
11:52We can build a house with this.
11:54We can put a compound wall.
11:56We can do anything with this.
11:58We can build a toilet with tiles.
12:00We can build a portable toilet
12:02with 1 feet by 2 feet tiles.
12:05If we want to build a portable toilet,
12:07it will cost 12,000 rupees.
12:09We can build a toilet in 2 hours.
12:11We can also build a portable house.
12:13This is also made of plastic.
12:15If we want to build a road
12:17with 600 lakh tons of plastic,
12:19we have to use this.
12:21We need 1000 tons of plastic.
12:23So, where is the plastic?
12:25We have to use plastic
12:27and give it to people.
12:29This is a good product.
12:31If it comes like this,
12:33no one is going to get plastic.
12:35Micro plastic will never come.
12:37We are saying that
12:39if we drink plastic water,
12:41micro plastic will come.
12:43If it goes inside,
12:45plastic will not come out.
12:47So, we are solving the micro plastic problem.
12:49We are providing good structural materials.
12:51We are providing a good road.
12:53Plastic is very useful in the process.