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

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The impetus for many similar road projects underway in Ghana was an ambitious plan announced by President Akufo-Addo in 2018. It’s expensive, complicated, technical, and much easier just to burn it. In 2018, the company completed a 100-foot pilot project in Zwolle, billed as the world’s first recycled plastic bike path.

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Want to expand your horizons? 35 new books from TED speakers that will enlarge your world

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Hard to believe, but in 2018, only roughly 3 percent of US employees worked from home, reports management researcher David Burkus. Yet white Americans are far more likely than Black Americans to view racism as a “zero-sum game,” believing that if life improves for Black people, it will be at the expense of white people.

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