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The Recycled Materials Resource Center is a federal-university partnership that serves as a research and outreach facility for the highway community, and a catalyst for beneficial use of recycled materials.

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		The latest RMRC Quarterly Newsletter is now on-line. Check it out here>>

A draft Final Report for Project 60, Quantifying the Benefits of Using CCPs in Sustainable Construction, is now available here>>

Environmental Issues of Recycling Tear-Off Roofing Shingles Webinar On October 7, NAPA, WasteCap Resource Solutions, CMRA, and Wisconsin DNR produced a webinar entitled, Environmental Issues of Recycling Tear-Off Roofing Shingles. The webinar was attended by 125 participants from around the continent and lasted for almost two hours. A broad range of environmental and other regulatory issues were discussed, including case study highlights from Minnesota and Wisconsin. A PDF of the handouts can be found here>>

CALL FOR PAPERS
International Symposium on Testing and Specification of Recycled Materials for Sustainable Geotechnical Construction
This symposium, which will take place February 2-4, 2011 in Baltimore, MD, will provide a forum for exchange of ideas on current research nationally and internationally on the use of industrial byproducts and other recycled materials in geotechnical construction. For more about the symposium, click here>> To see the Call for Papers, click here>>

New Research
New RMRC research projects are now posted here>>


	RMRC in the News

	Green roads: Highways of the future? Article about the problems we face with the planet's fast-growing road systems. More>> US Infrastructure, 09.10.09

	Features

			User Guidelines for Byproducts and Secondary Use Materials in Pavement Construction The User Guidelines have recently been updated with new materials and new evaluation guidance. Check it out here>>

			PaLATE This computer-based life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) tool uses environmental parameters to assist decision-makers in evaluating the use of recycled materials. Download now here>>

			RMRC Foundry Sand Webinar The RMRC sponsored a series of 6 webinars on the use of foundry sands in transportation and infrastructure applications in the fall of 2008. To view the streamed presentations, click here>>

			RMRC Earth Day Webinar Click on the presenters' names below to download presentations from the FHWA-RMRC Earth Day Webinar. •Benson • Gardner • Melton

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