The 'Plastic Man' from Madurai who was awarded prestigious Padma Shri

This 73-year-old professor from Madurai's Thiagarajar College of Engineering who was awarded Padma Shri has discovered an ingenious way to build durable roads using plastic waste

Rajagopalan Vasudevan, the 73-year old professor from Madurai, is changing the way plastic wastes are treated in the country, using a method in which the no-biodegradable waste becomes useful rather than an environmental hazard.

Known as the 'Plastic Man', Vasudevan has come out with a patented method to reuse plastic waste to construct roads and the technology has been provided to the Government of India for free. The method has been used to lay around 5,000 kilometers of the road across 11 states, which has now brought him Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour in the country.

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