On October 26, 1970, a street in Fullerton, California received a crushed recycled glass coating. Researchers from the University of Missouri-Rolla led the construction site for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. California was looking for a way to value the unrecorded bottles thrown in millions each year, the volume of which was saturation of its landfills. The synthesis report, published in 1975 by the Transportation Research Board, con…
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On October 26, 1970, a street in Fullerton, California received a crushed recycled glass coating. Researchers from the University of Missouri-Rolla led the construction site for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. California was looking for a way to value the unrecorded bottles thrown in millions each year, the volume of which was saturation of its landfills. The synthesis report, published in 1975 by the Transportation Research Board, con…