“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.
“With the mix, this is what happens to the road after extended period of time, under the traffic volume,” explains Dr. Sahadat Hossain. He is a Civil Engineering Professor at UTA and is the school’s director of Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability. Dr. Hossain, along with his team of students…
With a background in sustainable waste management, Dr. Hossain said, “We don’t want plastic to go into the landfill.” There are many kinds of plastic, some recyclable and some not recyclable. Dr. Hossain said the idea was pitched to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). They are now working with…
ARLINGTON, Texas — Cracked and worn-out roads can be frustrating to drivers, but at the University of Texas at Arlington, a civil engineering professor and his researchers are hoping to create a long-term solution. Dr. Sahadat Hossain leads the team made up of PhD students and a post-doctoral research associate. They’ve…
A civil engineering professor at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) has found a great way to utilize both recycled and un-recycled plastic waste products to fill in surface cracks and rutting in roads. It’s the first use of what’s called “plastic road” material in Texas.
Over the last three years, Sahadat Hossain, director of the UTA Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, and his team successfully completed a laboratory investigation examining the reuse of waste plastics in asphalt.
Sahadat Hossain, a UTA Civil Engineering Professor and the Director of the UTA Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, has received a $950,000 grant from the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Co-principal investigator is Karthikeyan Loganathan, an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering. The plastic road is expected…
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and civil engineering professor Sahadat Hossain has found a goldmine in something the world often views as a problem: plastic. Starting with a grant of $950,000 from the Dallas district of the Texas Department of Transportation, Hossain, who is also the sustainability director…