“We’re calling it ‘Plastic Road,’” said UTA civil engineering Ph.D. student Ishraq Faruk. “We are trying to use recycled plastic in the mix. That way we will be able to divert the plastics going into the landfill to here.” ‘Plastic Roads’ is a UTA student research project that has been…
“It creates an environmental solution for plastic,” said Hossain. “Plastic is a waste.” He says the method could save TXDOT even more on pavement maintenance costs. “For TXDOT or any other agency if they use plastic roads their maintenance drops. If you are maintaining every two years it will become…
Dr. Sahadat Hossain, director of the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, has been working on the project alongside a group of Ph.D. students and one postdoctoral research associate for the last three years. Hossain and his team have said they “don’t want plastic to go…
Beginning with a $950,000 implementation and performance monitoring grant from the Dallas district Texas Department of Transportation in 2019, Hossain’s plan to make roads using plastic waste has broken ground this summer at UTA parking lots F10 and 49.