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A new report from the Ocean Conservancy ranks Arizona among the worst states in the country for plastic pollution policy.

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Brigham City police are seeking the public's help to identify a woman whose body was found near a construction site in April.

South Sioux City constructed a 4,000-foot stretch of Foundry Road near Siouxland Freedom Park using a cutting-edge asphalt blend made from two million recycled plastic bags.

The top 3 inches of asphalt contained approximately 2 million plastic sacks that had been shredded and mixed in. The Foundry Road project is the first plastic road paved in Nebraska.

Rather than plastic bags going in the garbage or rolling around farm fields, South Sioux City wanted to put them to better use. This new road, near Siouxland Freedom Park, was paved Wednesday morning.