UT Arlington ‘Plastic Roads' research project paving the road to sustainability
"What I see out here is an outside-of-the-classroom laboratory for our students," UTA Director of Auxiliary Services Greg Hladik said.
Dump trucks with asphalt fill in about 40,000 square feet of parking lot, but it's not your typical asphalt. "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 in the works for 3 years. The parking lot repairs are the first real-world test."To see how it performs in real life as a parking lot," Faruk said. The asphalt used for the parking lot has enough plastic from milk and shampoo bottles to fill 15 recycle/garbage trucks.
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