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Sahadat Hossain Ph.d., a UT Arlington civil engineering researcher, explains that hundreds of 10-foot “pins” made from recycled plastic have been jammed into the hillside to stop a problem called “slope failure.” Hossain said it’s a problem “almost everywhere in Texas. The plastic-rod stabilization solution originated elsewhere, but Dr. Hossain and his team at UTA re-designed how the pins are deployed, making them effective even in the notoriously shifting soils of Texas.”