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In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and 1 km of two-lane road could use about 3 million masks

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In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and 1 km of two-lane road could use about 3 million masks

In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and 1 km of two-lane road could use about 3 million masks/Image: RMIT University About 3 million single-use face masks could be used to build the base of a one-kilometre, two-lane road, according to … Read more

Power cuts, rubble: millions come home to find Sudan’s capital unlivable

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Power cuts, rubble: millions come home to find Sudan's capital unlivable

They came home to a war-ruined city determined to rebuild their lives, but a chronic lack of power, water, jobs and medicine has left many residents of Sudan’s capital wishing they had stayed away. Power cuts, rubble: millions come home to find Sudan’s capital unlivable About four million people fled Khartoum after war broke out … Read more

In 2002, concrete rubble from Baltimore’s demolished Memorial Stadium was reused in a Maryland living shoreline; the project restored 400 feet of coast and created two acres of tidal wetlands

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In 2002, concrete rubble from Baltimore’s demolished Memorial Stadium was reused in a Maryland living shoreline; the project restored 400 feet of coast and created two acres of tidal wetlands

Restored living shoreline along the Chesapeake Bay. Source: Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center Tons of crushed concrete from Baltimore’s former Memorial Stadium are getting a second life as the foundation for a growing coastal ecosystem along the Chesapeake Bay. In 2002, environmental engineers placed thousands of cubic yards of clean stadium rubble along the shores of … Read more

Meet Joey: The 2-year-old Los Angeles rescue dog credited with finding 3 people alive beneath earthquake rubble is now up for a national hero award

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Meet Joey: The 2-year-old Los Angeles rescue dog credited with finding 3 people alive beneath earthquake rubble is now up for a national hero award

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s search-and-rescue K-9 has already proven himself a valuable addition to the team, helping to find three people alive in earthquake debris. When disaster strikes, concrete dust and debris cover everything in sight, and finding someone alive can seem an almost impossible task. That impossible task is what Joey, a … Read more

84-year-old woman found alive inside the rubble ‘Like a miracle,’ three days after Indonesia earthquake

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84-year-old woman found alive inside the rubble ‘Like a miracle,’ three days after Indonesia earthquake

An extraordinary rescue has emerged from the devastation left by a powerful earthquake in eastern Indonesia, after an 84-year-old woman was found alive beneath the ruins of her home three days after the disaster. Paulina Pobi, who lived in Nitunglea village on Flores, was trapped beneath the collapsed bamboo walls of her house after the … Read more