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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