UT Arlington News Center –
UTA professor Sahadat Hossain grew up in Bangladesh. Memories from his childhood shaped the research he’s turned into a career. “Many developing countries don’t have landfills. All they have are open dumps,” he said, “and everybody who lives by an open dump — they are all sick. I saw those people when I was a kid.” Now the director of the UTA Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, Hossain is converting the seemingly never-ending problem of waste generation into a solution.