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Recycled Plastic Bridge
Ravena, New York
Historical Marker Database · Steve Stoessel
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This experimental bowstring truss is the world's first bridge made of recycled plastic lumber and is comprised of 68,000 one-gallon milk jugs. Built in October 2000, it was instrumented and load tested beyond 15 tons.
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