Corrugated plastic pipe is ideal for rapid recovery because of its availability and speed of installation. Since it is lightweight and strong it's both safer and easier to handle than legacy products. Furthermore adding to the benefit of being lightweight, corrugated plastic pipe is environmentally friendly, lower in cost to manufacture, as well as ship. This makes corrugated plastic pipe the best choice for our environment and infrastructure.

What are disruptive events? They are catastrophic occurances such as floods, earth movement, hurricanes, accidents, fires and extreme weather that can cause severe damage to our infrastructure, including buried pipe.

What are stressors? Stressors are every day occurances and factors that wear on our infrastructure such as abrasions, corrosion, load fluctuations and lack of routine maintenace. Unlike disruptive events, stressors can be more easily anticipated and addressed with routine maintenance for example. Another way to understand the difference between stressors and disruptive events would be the ocean tides. We know when they'll happen and can anticipate and address wear and tear on buried pipe.

Though at times these two buzz words are seemingly used interchangeably, they are not the same. Sustainability is reducing environmental impact, and corrugated HDPE pipes certainly have the lowest environmental impacts among competing pipe materials. If a resilient project turned out to do added harm to the environment, that might exacerbate future disruptive events. It only makes sense to use sustainable material when constructing resilient infrastructure solutions.