The Times of India, New Delhi, Mar, 2017 : Plastic waste and bad roads are among the major problems persisting
in Indian cities and this man has a common solution to both - plastic roads. An
experiment that R Vasudevan, a chemistry professor, conducted long back in 2001
from his not-so-well equipped laboratory at Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai in Tamil Nadu, by laying a stretch of plastic road in the institution's
premises. This innovation became a huge hit.