This video demonstrates what happens when plastic pipe, in this case High-Density-Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe, is exposed to a grass fire. These demonstrations show two pipes - one laying on the ground and one buried. In both cases the pipe melts in hot drips. Once the buried pipe catches on fire and begins to melt, the soil above it collapses in on the pipe. The pipe can no longer transport water, the ground above it is not passable, and noxious gases are likely emitted into the environment. This happened in the 2007 California wildfires, and will happen any time plastic pipe burns.
Fact the air is cleaner today than in your father's day or grandfathers day
datzfast 2 years ago
This produces bad gas which ruin the atmosphere
DuchesneLover 3 years ago
Ok, so re-write a spec to require a concrete endpiece on culvert. Daramatic music. I felt the world coming to an end.
JagOnDaRoad 3 years ago
Likewise if I was in the Concrete industry.. why then do we use over 400 million metres of plastic drainage pipes a year if they are so bad?
durakerb1 3 years ago
If I were in the steel culvert industry, I'd make a video JUST LIKE THIS.
jordanvt 3 years ago
Three letters. RCP
dewillget8 4 years ago