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Used face masks can make roads: Aust study – 7NEWS.com.au
Australian researchers have found single-use face masks can be recycled into a road-making material in a new technique that could reduce COVID-related waste.
Often found lying in streets, single-use face masks might be turned from road litter into roads thanks a novel process developed by Australian researchers.
A study from Melbourne’s RMIT University has shown about three million masks can be recycled to build a kilometre of a two-lane road, preventing 93 tonnes of waste from going to landfill.
The new road-making material is a mix of one per cent shredded single-use face masks and 99 per cent processed building rubble.
The researchers found incorporating…
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