Walk on waste

By InfoChem2009-01-01T12:11:00

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With landfill sites filling fast, recycling is becoming increasingly important

With landfill sites filling fast, the recycling of household waste is becoming increasingly important. So it’s good news that researchers at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin have come up with a way of taking your rubbish – plastics, empty cans and packaging materials – and reusing it in the production of concrete for making pavements, roads and buildings.

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