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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, ...

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Van Dyk Recycling Solutions uses vertical integration to tackle the global plastic waste crisis through advanced processing.

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