Just when Baltimore County highway officials thought they were safe from the nightmare of ice, snow, freezing rain and complaints about unplowed streets, along comes the slag menace — 40,000 tons of ...

The Dutch government is introducing a temporary ban on the use of steel slag in areas where it could pose a risk to public health, junior environment minister Thierry Aartsen told MPs in a briefing.

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

The use of coal slag in abrasive blasting at Newport News Shipbuilding is more widespread than originally reported. The slag, a gritty coal-waste byproduct, contains trace amounts of beryllium, a ...

Developed countries like Japan, USA have taken lead in making fertilisers as slag silicate fertiliser, by-produced lime fertiliser, slag phosphate fertiliser or iron matter of special fertiliser using ...

The steel slag drawn from furnaces of steel mills will be turned to eco-friendly use for land-filling in road construction and for construction of other projects, sources said. In what is seen as a ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

Concerns are being raised about the health impact of a byproduct from the steel-making process being used on gravel roads in eastern Iowa. Muscatine County leaders have suspended the use of steel ...

Human activity has significantly altered the earth’s landscape — so much so that many scientists have said the planet began a new geological chapter called the Anthropocene era. Many of these changes ...