Parking lot #49 at UT Arlington is closed for repairs and a test. "What I see out here is an outside-of-the-classroom laboratory for our students," UTA Director of Auxiliary Services Greg Hladik said.

In a few years, Angelenos could find themselves driving down streets made of their own recycled plastic bags and bottles. Working with a company called TechniSoil, the City of Los Angeles has been ...

Workers lay asphalt with New Village Initiative's plastic beads on an Interstate 80 bypass lane near DeSoto, Iowa, west of Des Moines. The company transforms waste plastics into tiny beads used to ...

Texas drivers could soon have smoother commutes thanks to a surprising ingredient — plastic bags. Engineers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a method to blend shredded plastic ...

On sections of a busy, four-lane road that cuts through the University of Missouri-Columbia, for example, the Missouri Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the university, is running a ...

While a pile of polyethylene plastic wrap piled up in a storage shed for the Dillon Marina (from boats wrapped up in the off-season) Craig Simson, the "Mayor" of the Dillon Marina started looking for ...

Drive anywhere in Dallas and it’s hard to miss hitting a pothole. Whether a small divot or a crater shutting down two highway lanes, potholes epitomize a recurring theme of North Texas roads: the ...

Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal's Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal's urban areas ...