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The study will review domestic and international examples and will identify opportunities for repurposing plastics in asphalt, other transportation infrastructure, and in infrastructure outside the transportation domain. It will also examine opportunities to improve plastic recycling processes and the upstream manufacturing and use of plastics to make them compatible with the safe and effective repurposing of plastics waste in infrastructure.
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In the U.S., most plastics waste is disposed in landfills, but a significant amount also ends up as litter on land, rivers, and oceans. Today, less than 10 percent of plastics waste is recycled in the U.S. annually. The use of recycled plastics in infrastructure applications has potential to help ex...
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