As a vital and integral component of transportation infrastructure, pavement has a direct and
tangible impact on socio-economic sustainability. In recent years, an influx of …

Significant volumes of waste materials such as plastics is generated every year worldwide
with a potentially harmful impact on the environment. At the same time, the demand for …

This research aims to determine if the observed improvements using polyethylene (PE)
waste in asphalt binder translate into better performance at the asphalt mixture scale in the …

In recent decades, the incessant disposal of plastic waste seriously endangers the natural
environment. As a major contributor to global plastic waste, recycled polyethylene (rPE) is …

With the rapid rise in the number of plastic products, recycling plastic waste has become a
crucial challenge worldwide. Recycling plastic waste in asphalt pavement has emerged as …

Two types of elastomer/plastic compound-modified bitumen were developed by means of
incorporating the reactive elastomeric terpolymer (RET) into the plastic (high-density …

The circular use of resources (ie, reuse and recycling of materials) aiming for zero waste is
also gaining increasing attention in pavement engineering. In this regard, the possible use …

There has been growing interest in the use of polyethylene (PE) in the asphalt industry as
one way to mitigate the adverse environmental impact of waste plastics. The main goal of …

With the increase in traffic volume and heavy vehicles, as the changes in climatic conditions,
in recent years the design of the road surface has completely changed because it has to …

This article investigated the effect of waste polyethylene (PE) on the modified asphalt
binders' rheological behavior from a statistical point of view. The interlaboratory testing …