Globally, more than 400 million tons of plastic are produced each year, and less than 10% is recycled. Much of the rest ends up burned, buried or drifting through waterways, a problem that’s only ...

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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, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Md S Hossain, University of Texas at Arlington (THE CONVERSATION) Globally, more than ...