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Recycled plastic moves into bridge components
MIT spinout Atlas Building Composites has supplied recycled composite trusses for a 40-foot bridge in a Massachusetts wetland, MIT reports.
The company is developing robotic manufacturing that combines waste plastic with reinforcing material. The university’s September profile describes an existing application and the business’s expansion ambitions, not proof of a universal replacement for conventional construction.
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