KUT 90.5 – Austin’s NPR Station – Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, created the school’s Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability. He says China is an importer of recycled material from all over the world, and now the country has changed its rules…
UTA News Center – City of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has signed a five-year, $4 million agreement with Dr Hossain to solve the one major issue for their country – growing demand for sustainable urban development. The agreement is collaboration between the University of Texas at Arlington and Kotebe Metropolitan University…
Viera Voice – In the U.S., a pin concept developed by Dr. Sahadat Hossain, an professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, “turns plastic’s non-decomposition from an environmental headache to an engineering solution.” The pins, made from recycled plastic — about 500 soda bottles each, are…
Team of CE Students Finishes Second in SWANA Competition UTA College of Engineering News – A team of University of Texas at Arlington civil engineering students placed second in the Solid Waste Association of North America’s International Solid Waste Design Competition in September 2017. The team, supervised by Hossain, included…
News Radio 1200 WOAI – University of Texas-Arlington Professor Sahadat Hossain, who heads the school’s Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability, says China is the main importer of recycling product from around the world. Recently, they put a regulation that recycling product cannot have more than 0.5 percent contaminant. That’s had…
The Shorthorn – For the past two weeks, UTA has been the center of a potential global innovation for safer and more efficient waste management. Civil engineering professor Sahadat Hossain created the Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability in 2015. The institute coordinates efforts to reform waste management systems both locally…
ISWA News – In January 2018, Nina Tsydenova from the ISWA Young Professionals Group went over to Arlington, Texas for the ISWA-SWIS Winter School 2018 on landfill and landfill mining. She shared her experience during Winter School in ISWA website.
The Shorthorn – The Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability is aiming to reduce disease and disaster in sub-Saharan Africa by studying the best ways to help countries implement new waste management systems. Sahadat Hossain, civil engineering professor and institute director, said he and his research team are working with seven…
ISWA News – In just one month, the 3rd Winter School starts and we are expecting another great cadre of participants from around the world. In fact, more than 60 waste management professionals and students from fifty-two countries participated in the Winter Schools of 2016 and 2017 at the Solid…
VERIFY: How realistic is zero waste? KVUEabc – Cities across America are pushing programs to accomplish no more trash in landfills. It’s called “zero waste.” In order to get to zero waste, trash has to stop going to the landfill and instead go to a recycling facility. In Dallas, there’s…