Scientists Back It up: Hawaii Is Building Roads Made of Plastics and Fishing Nets Taken Out of the Ocean

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Hawaii is testing an asphalt that incorporates recycled plastic and polyethylene from abandoned fishing nets. The idea sounds round, turning waste difficult to manage into infrastructure that we use every day. What if that “recycling” ends up releasing microplastics to the environment? The first analyses, after about 11 months of traffic in a residential stretch of Oahu, point to that these mixtures do not release more polymers than the usual as…