Did you know? Every year, residents in the Netherlands use an estimated 180,000 tons of toilet paper. Because this amounts to a lot of trees, the Dutch province of Friesland repurposed the product to make a bicycle highway last fall. The stretch of roadway is 1 kilometer and connects the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden to the town of Stiens. It is the first bicycle lane in the world to be paved with toilet paper — but few can tell the difference based on appearances. In...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building http://inhabitat.com/bicycle-highway-in-the-netherlands-built-using-recycled-toilet-paper
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