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Bill Buttlar and Punya Rath examine rubber-modified asphalt in the Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab in Lafferre Hall.

Where rubber meets the road

Mizzou researchers are devising a way to demonstrate how rubber-based asphalt reduces greenhouse emissions.

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Ask a Mizzou expert: Why do potholes form on roads?

As the nation’s drivers zig and zag to try to avoid potholes, University of Missouri expert Punya Rath explains the science behind these street craters. A member of the Mizzou Asphalt Pavement and Innovation Lab (MAPIL), Rath specializes in researching asphalt materials.

Bill Butlar in asphalt lab

Buttlar furthers work to add plastic wastes to asphalt mixtures

Mizzou Engineering’s Bill Buttlar and partners from Dow are looking at ways to incorporate plastic waste streams into asphalt mixtures.