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Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington, USA, to promote sustainable roadway construction, has made an award to a project in the city of Bellingham. A newly-widened pathway of recycled concrete incorporates more than 400 recycled toilets, crushed into what the project engineers have dubbed “poticrete.”
July 3, 2012 Read time: 1 min

Greenroads, a rating system developed at the University of Washington, USA, to promote sustainable roadway construction, has made an award to a project in the city of Bellingham. A newly-widened pathway of recycled concrete incorporates more than 400 recycled toilets, crushed into what the project engineers have dubbed “poticrete.”

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