Photo: Dallas highways. (AP Images)
ARLINGTON, Texas — A civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington is using recycled and unrecycled plastic waste products to fill in cracks and reduce rutting in roads.
Professor Sahadat Hossain received a nearly $950,000 grant from the Dallas district of TxDOT to implement the “plastic road” material on Texas highways. The first implementation of this material will be in the Kaufman area. The use of plastic products is expected to improve the strength and durability of the highways as well as serve as a substitute for bitumen in asphalt pavement roads.