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We use 6.8 billion face masks a day. Researchers want to turn them into roads

February 5, 2021/

Roads using masks

The new material not only gives new life to some of the 6.8 billion face masks the researchers estimate are used globally each day; it could actually make roads stronger, according to the study.

By Lilly Smith


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