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Millions of tons of plastic are trashed every year. But what if we used it to pave our roads?

Ideas.Ted

It’s expensive, complicated, technical, and much easier just to burn it. India’s plastic road technology grew out of experimentation done in 2001 by R. The rest winds up in landfills, illegal dumps, streets and waterways, or is burned in open pits, poisoning the air. That’s the first step,” she noted. “If

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

In 2001 Mary Parry was homeless and living in a tent in Pennsylvania when she began befriending hikers along the roughly 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail. But he found the maze of his care complicated, expensive and not focused enough on his goal: walking again. to try to use the car jack to save his father. And he did. Jesus Jimenez.

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