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EPISODE · Jul 26, 2019 · 17 MIN

#27 Recycling Plastic into Roads

from Engineering Matters

After 844 trial tests, and setting his own street on fire, founder of Scottish start-up MacRebur Toby McCartney finally hit on a viable solution for repairing potholes. His idea sought to resurface roads using recycled plastics, and the result is a form of polymer modification of asphalt that uses a mixture of waste plastics and...

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