Sarawak studying using slag, waste products to build roads

Sarawak Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah (right) and state Public Works Department director Richard Tajan looking at samples of road construction materials incorporating recycled waste products such as plastic and slag. - ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE/The Star

KUCHING: Sarawak is looking into the potential of using slag and other waste products as road construction materials, says Deputy Premier Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah.

He said the state Public Works Department (JKR) was studying whether slag produced by ferroalloy industries at Samalaju Industrial Park in Bintulu could be used in building roads.