They make their way out of asphalt mixed with PET bottles in Los Angeles

By mixing recycled plastic bottles with chewed up asphalt, the new process repaves a road without adding any new asphalt—and makes it from a material that lasts longer – origo wrote after Fast Company.

The unusual technology was developed by the TechniSoil Industrial company with years of work. The recycled PET bottles are used to replace the asphalt binder, bitumen, which is a by-product of petroleum production.