Soon, if you hit the road in central Mexico, you could drive on flexible plastic that otherwise would be in a landfill. The country claims to have paved the world’s first federal highway made with ...

Ninety percent of the plastic we use ends up in landfills, or in the world's oceans. Now, a Scottish firm has invented a way to recycle that hard-to-use plastic for a role that requires durability: ...

A local road construction company plans to build a recycling facility near the Mill River to convert torn-up and discarded pavement into roadway patching material — while creating no new waste in the ...

A street in downtown L.A. will soon be repaved, but the road won’t be quite the standard asphalt road we’re used to. Instead, it will be covered with a material made, in part, from recycled plastic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. What do the public paved roads in your nearest city look like? Are they smooth and dark, with a topcoat of asphalt? Maybe they’re ...

Two projects supported by the Scrap Tire Program at the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) were recognized with awards ...