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How the garbage industry outperformed the market

In 2019, the North American waste management market reached $208 billion. Thanks to advancements in modern chemistry and support from municipal governments, landfills have seen astonishing financial success in recent years, raking in millions of dollars in profit. So how exactly are landfills turning a profit out of garbage and…

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Dr. Hossain October 16, 2020 April 4, 2023News 0

OP-ED: Waste is a resource, not a liability

Even though source reduction, recycling, composting, and WTE are preferred choices of waste management, over 70% of solid waste is open dumped or landfilled globally. Typical landfills/dumpsites occupy large areas from several to hundreds of acres.  A lack of available space, both in developed countries and major metropolitan cities in…

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Dr. Hossain October 16, 2020 October 16, 2020News 0

Testing Plastic Road

Dr. Sahadat Hossain and Dr. Warda Ashraf are combining their two areas of expertise – recycling and asphalt/concrete, respectively – to lead a feasibility study on building plastic roads, funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

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Dr. Hossain September 29, 2020 September 29, 2020News 0

Innovative approaches to stabilizing bridges, highway slopes

A civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington has received a two-year, $987,140 contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to investigate the use of recycled plastic pins to repair deep-seated failures on embankments and the areas around highway bridges.

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Dr. Hossain September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020News 0

Innovative approaches to stabilizing bridges

Hossain has used recycled plastic pins extensively to repair shallow slopes in TxDOT’s Dallas district. The pins are about 8-10 feet long and are driven into the slopes to provide stabilization, reducing costs by more than 50% when compared to conventional methods. In addition, the project, led by Sahadat Hossain,…

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Dr. Hossain September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020News 0

Innovative Approaches to Stabilizing Bridges, Highway Slopes

Some highways, however, experience slope failures deeper below the surface than the pins can reach. To repair these, Hossain is implementing a new technique where crews remove the soil about halfway to the location of the failure, insert rows of pins, then cover the area and insert more rows of…

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Dr. Hossain September 17, 2020 September 17, 2020News 0

Recycled plastic from garbage carts may soon be used to build asphalt roads in Texas

Those plastic milk jugs and water bottles in your recycling bin could soon be used to make pavement for roads across Texas and beyond. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are about halfway through a two-year study of how to use recycled plastic as road material. And, the…

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Dr. Hossain April 24, 2020 May 18, 2020News 0

UTA receives over $340K from TxDOT to study the feasibility of using plastic in pavement materials

By incorporating expertise in recycling and construction materials, two civil engineering professors are conducting a feasibility study into building plastic roads. The $342,588 study is being funded by the Texas Department of Transportation and will be ongoing for the next two years, according to a UTA news release.

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Dr. Hossain April 22, 2020 May 18, 2020News 0

Texan scientists work to turn plastic waste into roads

Researchers say the project could lead to ‘more durable, sustainable and cheaper roads’. Scientists from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are leading a two-year, $342,588 (£274,000) feasibility study into building roads made from plastic waste, funded by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

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Dr. Hossain April 17, 2020 May 18, 2020News 0

Old plastic seen as new solution for road paving

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are working on ways to incorporate waste plastic in roads. They are combining plastic with asphalt to create an advantageous solution for safe surfaces that will last longer and cost less.

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Dr. Hossain April 13, 2020 May 18, 2020News 0
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