UT Arlington engineering team turns plastic bags into roads

UT Arlington engineering team turns plastic bags into roads

To change the world “one road at a time” is what University of Texas at Arlington engineering professor Sahadat Hossain and his students plan to do. Hossain and the team have been developing a plastic-infused asphalt mix for road construction he said improves roads — and recycles plastic that would have otherwise gone to waste. “We found out if we add plastic to the asphalt road, the road becomes more durable,” Hossain said. “The rutting and cra…