Drink beer, build car parks

IF you want to build a car park, someone has to drink a lot of beer.

A Hobart council has become the first council in Australia to use recycled glass in asphalt.
Forty-five tonnes of the glass – the equivalent of 254,000 crushed beer stubbies – replaced 53 tonnes of natural sand which would have been mined from Tasmania's rapidly diminishing sand reserves.

The freshly laid asphalt used to seal the Rosny Tennis Club car park looks like other road surface.

But the asphalt contains about 20 per cent of recycled glass, collected through kerbside recycling.