Adding waste toner to make highway asphalt more durable earned two University of Texas at Austin engineers a place on the Texas Department of Transportation list of Top 10 Research Findings or Innovations for 2000.
Thomas Kennedy, professor of civil engineering, and Mansour Solaimanian, research engineer in civil engineering, received the award for their extensive study of the use of waste printer toner in asphalt and asphalt pavements.
Waste toner occurs as a by-product of the manufacturing process as well as residue from copiers and printers. Typically, it has been deposited in landfills for lack of a viable recycling alternative. An inert product, it …
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