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Vancouver, B.C., develops asphalt made from plastic bottles (access required)

by Lee Fehrenbacher

Published: December 5,2012

The city of Vancouver in British Columbia has found a creative use for used plastic bottles. It’s building roads with them. City staffers have created the first-ever warm mix asphalt system that uses post-consumer recycled plastic. With the help of shampoo bottles, milk jugs and yogurt containers - plastics that are difficult to recycle – staffers ...
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