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Turning Face Masks Into Roads

Published Friday Feb 26, 2021

Author Lilly Smith, Fast Company

Turning Face Masks Into Roads

The disposable masks you see every day have to go somewhere. Many, if not most, end up in a landfill. Researchers have developed a new material that turns all those masks into roads.

As Lilly Smith, at Fast Company writes, researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new material that integrates shredded single-use face masks with recycled concrete aggregate. The new material not only gives new life to some of the 6.8 billion face masks researchers estimate are used globally each day; it could actually make roads stronger, according to the study.

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