Engineering360: "April brings showers – and pothole repairs"

There seems to be some controversy in using plastics with the asphalt for repairs and/or paving, it seems as it wears it introduces micro plastics to the environment...and in doing so introduces it into the food chain...if true, this is a really bad unintended consequence and should be halted immediately, and possibly remediation is required....burn it...

Can you point us to articles about the controversy? I didn't run across anything when I was researching this article but I wasn't looking specifically for plastic-enhanced asphalt.

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