EurekAlert – A UTA civil engineer is finding a better use for that plastic just lying around in landfills. Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, is taking landfill plastic and recycling it into giant pins that are inserted in failing soil on highway…
UT Arlington News Center – A UTA civil engineer is finding a better use for that plastic just lying around in landfills. Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at The University of Texas at Arlington, is taking landfill plastic and recycling it into giant pins that are inserted in failing…
TCEQ Publication Natural Outlook – The Denton project is part of a grander goal envisioned by Dr. Sahadat Hossain, a UT Arlington civil engineering professor and director of the university’s renowned Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, which has been working closely with the Denton landfill on a variety of projects….
CE Teams Finish Strong at ASCE Geotech Competition UTA College of Engineering News – TA finished second in the Geo Poster and Geo Prediction competitions and third in the GeoWall contest at the ASCE Geotechnical Frontiers Conference in Orlando March 12-15. The Geo Poster team was represented by Ph.D. candidate…
ISWA Global News – Issue 45 Success at the 2017 Winter School in Arlington and Denton in Texas this January with 38 registrations and a great two-week line-up of speakers, experts and hands-on practical work! The Winter School is organised and led by Dr. Sahadat Hossain of the Solid Waste…
Waste 360 – The Denton (Texas) Landfill, with support from University of Texas, Arlington (UTA), is about to leverage two high-tech tools to boost the facilities methane gas production by about threefold, and double to triple the site’s life. One of the tools is a sophisticated liquid monitoring system that…
Power Play UTA Inquiry – Finding viable, affordable energy sources is of preeminent importance in today’s society. Researchers at UTA are making breakthroughs that may help transform the way we consume and generate power. The University of Texas at Arlington established the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) in January…
Global Methane Initiative – The City of Denton Landfill (Texas, USA) reportedly is the first in the world to implement “closed-loop waste management.” Dr. Sahadat Hossain, of the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) at the University of Texas Arlington, developed the perpetual landfill model to be cost-efficient and potentially…
North Texas Daily – The Denton landfill, located on South Mayhill Road, has moved forward with a plan to implement new technologies to decrease the space Denton’s waste takes up. An eco-friendly landfill, Denton’s landfill has been working since 2008 to improve quality of life by using the waste to…
Dallas Innovates – A civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr Sahadat Hossain has received a $1.2 million contract from the Texas Department of Transportation to implement a system that would improve the sub-base repair of roadways, reducing cracking and improving maintenance in the process.