All kinds of recycled waste goes into public roads these days, including blast furnace slag, scrap tires, and roofing shingles, according to the Federal Highway Administration. An estimated 300,000 ...

A company called Makropa is paving roads with Waste Light Concrete – a material that replaces stone with shredded ...

ARLINGTON, Texas — In the basement of a UTA building, a steel wheel hums against asphalt. Water hisses, and you can hear it — the sound of a solution being put to the test. For years, the world has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hawaii tests roads made from recycled plastic and fishing nets, with early results showing no increase in microplastic shedding.

The world has a plastic waste problem. One solution to curb the issue is to put plastic into roads. India was the first country to put plastic roads to the test. An Indian scientist known as the ...

Drivers traveling on a nearly mile-long section of SH 205 in Rockwall wouldn't notice anything unique about the asphalt, but what's underneath the surface could change the way roadways are built in ...

Sahadat Hossain, a civil engineering professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, shows a sample of recycled plastic in asphalt and a bag of recycled plastic used to make the asphalt, May 1, ...

Researchers collect road dust samples from a section of road paved with recycled plastic-reinforced asphalt. Pictured left to right: Rachel Nakamoto, Simon Williams, Cara Megill and Cate Wardinski.

Nigeria doesn’t have enough roads, and it’s making life harder for people, especially in rural areas. The Nigerian government’s latest estimate is that the country needs another 200,000 kilometres of ...

A team of researchers in Hawaii are trying out making roads from recycled ocean plastic waste. It's the first time that ocean plastic waste has been recycled in this way, and it aims to help tackle ...

Sand, rock, and melted plastic now sit beneath the tires on a quiet residential street in Oahu. For nearly a year, cars have rolled over an experiment that could reshape how Hawaii deals with its ...