Pennsylvania Department of Transportation contract workers lay pavement made partially with recycled plastic at Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County. A growing number of states are testing ...

ARLINGTON (CBSNewsTexas.com) — A University of Texas at Arlington professor is taking "reuse, reduce and recycle" to whole other level. There's a machine in the professor's lab that is paving the way ...

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Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges, or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save ...

Those plastic milk jugs and water bottles in your recycling bin could soon be used to make pavement for roads across Texas and beyond. Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are about ...

Parking lot #49 at UT Arlington is closed for repairs and a test. "What I see out here is an outside-of-the-classroom laboratory for our students," UTA Director of Auxiliary Services Greg Hladik said.

On sections of a busy, four-lane road that cuts through the University of Missouri-Columbia, for example, the Missouri Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the university, is running a ...

A crusading Indian scientist is at the forefront of a movement to use more plastic technologies to fix India's failing roads. In 2002, Rajagopalan Vasudevan used his now-patented bitumin-modified ...

It is estimated that humans now produce 420 million tons of plastic annually, with a significant portion of that entering our oceans. Because plastic does not break down quickly, it is now considered ...

Something was cooking in Toby McCartney’s Scottish home. The engineer and his two pals were boiling pot after pot of plastic on the stove. Plastic bottles, diapers, carrier bags – it was all going in ...

Transportation officials in multiple states are testing whether roads made from grocery bags, juice cartons, printer ink cartridges or other discarded plastic can make pavement last longer, save money ...