Question

Polyblend is _____
A. A mixture of two different types of plastics
B. A fine powder of recycled modified plastic
C. A blend of plastic and bitumen
D. None of these

Answer 1

It was developed in collaboration by a plastic sack manufacturer, Ahmed khan of Bangalore in 1998 for the betterment of road construction or better life of roads.

Complete answer:
Polyblend is a fine powder of recycled modified plastic which was developed by Ahmed khan in collaboration with R.V. College of Engineering and Bangalore city Corporation. Bitumen has good water repellent properties therefore it was added in mixture of polyblend which turned out to be better for road construction or you can say it has increased the life of road because after the addition of bitumen it was found that water repellent property has become even more better which further increase the life of roads. Ahmed khan proved this and now polyblend is used for the construction of roads. As the name indicates plastic used in making the polyblend is recycled and modified.

If we look at other options, polyblend can't be a mixture of two different types of plastic since it has bitumen and modified plastic and if we look at the last option you can get confused but in this option it says the blend of plastic and bitumen but polyblend is not a blend of these two as the bitumen was added in the mixture of modified plastic.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Additional information:
Ahmed Khan is a proprietor of KK Plastic waste management. He believes that it is impractical for the world to think that plastic should be banned, he thinks that plastic can be recycled, so recycling would be the better option according to him rather than banning it.

Note: For the construction of the road the polyblend was made by Ahmed Khan by using recycled and modified plastic and for better water repellent properties bitumen was added in it. It was proved by Ahmed Khan that bitumen becomes better after adding it in the mixture. Therefore polyblend is known to be the fine powder of recycled and modified plastic.