glasphalt

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Blend of glass +‎ asphalt[1]

Noun[edit]

glasphalt (uncountable)

  1. A type of asphalt that uses crushed glass in place of rock aggregate.
    • 1970 March 16, “Riding on Wastes”, in Time[2], archived from the original on 1 December 2010:
      One 58-foot-long test strip of glasphalt pavement, outside the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, has held up well during the worst winter in years []
    • 1991 November 15, Eric Melvin, “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
      Indeed, in a glut, contaminated materials may find no market at any price, or they may be used for low-value uses such as landfill cover, glasphalt paving, or sandblasting--not for closed-loop recycling that reduces solid waste and saves natural resources.

References[edit]

  • glasphalt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016) “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future[1], Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225