Dykes Paving Blog – Dr. Hossain’s idea is to use recycled plastic soda bottles to create pins to stabilize the roads and lessen the incidence of cracks and buckling, thereby making the roads last longer. Not only is this a cheaper fix, but it is one that will last years…
The Global Methane Initiative Blog – The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) held its “Winter School” in January 2016 at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and The City of Denton, Texas. Organized by UTA’s Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS), the training focused on providing waste professionals from…
ISWA Global News – Issue 39 : The Solid Waste Institute of Sustainability (SWIS) together with ISWA organised the first Winter School which was modeled similarly to the well-established ISWA Summer School programmes (2012-2014). The 2016 ISWA-SWIS Winter School was held at the University of Texas at Arlington and the…
waste360.com – Using a nearly $400,000 grant from the City of Denton, Texas, civil engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) have created a plan to use moisture to speed up methane gas production at the city’s landfill.
FOX4news.com – There’s a project underway in Denton that could revolutionize the way cities deal with trash disposal. It turns out, landfills could be much more than just a place to leave garbage. In this segment, FOX 4’s Dan Godwin talks to Dr. Sahadat Hossain, a professor of civil engineering…
Horn Blower Light – Dr. Sahadat Hossain, a leading expert in sanitary landfill management and Director of Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) at the University of Texas at Arlington, gave a public lecture on landfill management at HoA-REC&N’s headquarters. During the lecture on 8th January, Dr. Sahadat addressed the…
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…
WasteDIVE – University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and the city of Denton, TX are partnering on the first landfill mining project in Texas, hoping to discover that the space can be leveraged as a viable, re-usable resource.
CBSDFW.COM – UT Arlington is helping Denton try to convert garbage into power and prevent 700 tons of garbage a day from piling into mountains of garbage. The idea has drawn students and researchers from 27 different countries to see what Denton and UTA are doing. “It is a different…
NBCDFW.com – Students at UTA are working with the Denton city landfill on a groundbreaking project that could help communities everywhere figure out what to do with their future garbage – and create new kickbacks in the process. As far as Dr. Sahadat Hossain is concerned, one man’s trash can…