Just when Baltimore County highway officials thought they were safe from the nightmare of ice, snow, freezing rain and complaints about unplowed streets, along comes the slag menace — 40,000 tons of ...

The use of coal slag in abrasive blasting at Newport News Shipbuilding is more widespread than originally reported. The slag, a gritty coal-waste byproduct, contains trace amounts of beryllium, a ...

MUSCATINE, Ia. — Dust from waste material used to cover Muscatine County's gravel roads could be hurting the health of rural area children, a new report says. Dust from the slag, a byproduct from ...

Researchers examined whether steel slag that had been used to treat wastewater could then be recycled as an aggregate material for concrete. Their findings? Concrete made with post-treatment steel ...

The asphalt paving industry in the United States has matured and improved due to the foresight of agencies, road builders/contractors, academic researchers, material suppliers, and consultants in our ...

Heidelberg Materials North America has moved towards sustainability by turning one of its cement plants into a slag grinding facility. Slag is often disregarded as a waste product from metals during ...

The waste from coal-fired power plants includes solid, liquid and gaseous waste, including 16 million tons of ash & slag and gypsum discharged every year. But only 30 percent, or 5 million tons, is ...