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Los Angeles Roads May Soon Be Paved With Recycled Plastic

Architecture, Cities, Innovation

The City of Los Angeles has partnered with landscape product company Technisoil on a plan to pave roads with a new material called “plastic asphalt.” It’s a surfacing material that uses oil made from shredded plastic waste as its binder.

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