[HN Gopher] Saving Lebanon's streets: the engineer with a sustai...
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       Saving Lebanon's streets: the engineer with a sustainable fix
        
       Author : ronyfadel
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-04-28 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | tyingq wrote:
       | That's great. Maybe they should consider making them with rebar
       | inside to get the strength up while keeping the scrap value
       | nominal.
        
       | 1cvmask wrote:
       | Everytime I see manhole in the written word George Carlin the
       | comedian/philosopher comes to mind. He famously said they will
       | call it "personhole" cover.
        
         | mygoodaccount wrote:
         | And what would be the problem with that?
        
           | tyingq wrote:
           | Manhole would be one of those cases where "man" doesn't
           | really imply anything positive that somebody else is missing
           | out on.
        
       | ars wrote:
       | People in Lebanon are so poor and desperate they are stealing
       | metal manhole covers, and this engineer is replacing them with
       | plastic covers.
       | 
       | He replaced 3 of them, and he's looking for donations so he can
       | fund more of them.
       | 
       | Not sure about the "sustainable" part, but he is using recycled
       | plastic trash to make them.
        
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