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[mecordova]

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

[Randi]

[AvastMH]

Thanks mecordova!

[Randi]

A highway paved with recycled diapers may change the cloth vs. disposables debate

... more than 100,000 dirty, disposable diapers — or “nappies,” as they are called here — are being used to help pave a road in west Wales.

This is a pilot project with intriguing environmental implications. A proliferation of diaper highways could reduce landfill waste — and influence parents around the globe weighing the vexingly difficult decision between cloth vs. disposables.

These particular diapers were rinsed — thoroughly, don’t worry. Then shredded into fibrous gray pellets and mixed with asphalt that a work crew clad in bright orange slathered over a 1.5-mile stretch of winding highway this week.

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Several countries have experimented with roads made with plastic garbage. India led the way — glue made from shredded plastic waste has been holding together a street in Chennai since 2002, and since 2015 the Indian government has required road construction in populous urban areas to incorporate plastic waste. The Netherlands, a country of keen cyclists, opened the world’s first bicycle path made with recycled plastic. And California used discarded plastic bottles and other packaging to repave a three-lane stretch of highway.

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Wales — a semiautonomous nation of 3 million people — has been more creative than most with its recycling policies. And along with Germany and Taiwan, it is among the top recyclers in the world.

[ggordon]

Back in the 90s Auburn, Washington did a test of paving a heavily traveled street with a mixture of ground up used tires and asphalt. Within a year the pavement was disintegrating and they had to give up and repave it normally.

[AvastMH]

Wow - that was a weird option to try Gordon. Asphalt wears rubber down, so it seems an odd one to mix them when they will have torsional stresses put om them.

[Michael]

And we thought there were a lot of Priest Rocks!!!

[jil]

Yes, I do remember having 'fun' with the O Shima's editing at least one ship!

Happy all the Twosday!

[AvastMH]

O what?!? O Shima - O no!
I never thought to do that Michael.

As you come down the picture it's the third one. I wonder how long it would take to simply sail from one to the next? Join the O Shima dots

Happy all the Twosday!

Yes - very happy Twosday to you too jil! Amazingly fun date, the same back to front, and the same upside down. Wonderful 22022022

[Hanibal94]

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

I wonder if Debrett's Etiquette and Modern Manners has anything to say about these new-fangled situations?
Aha! They do have a list: https://debretts.com/the-10-most-awkwar ... deo-calls/

[Randi]

[Michael]

[Hanibal94]

Cool find, Joan - and pretty neat to see Debrett's keeping up-to-date with the times

[Vic]

These sound accurate for Zoom calls

[Randi]

Caro introduced Joan and me to Waffle ...

I got the first two and lost the next two

I wonder if it is an attempt to sabotage climate research?

[studentforever]

Got todays (just!)

[Hanibal94]

I like this one best - it might be the most appropriate for us, even!

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

[studentforever]

Well I got this one 2nd guess but I suspect that it will plumb the depths of my lack of direction sense if I persist. I know the names of lots of countries but how they sit in relation to each other is a challenge (mind you some of my names are out of date - my geography lessons finished over 50 years ago and the wretched governments keep changing names and I don't always keep up).