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English
Etymology
Blend of glass + asphalt[1]
Noun
glasphalt (uncountable)
- A type of asphalt that uses crushed glass in place of rock aggregate.
1970 March 16, “Riding on Wastes”, in Time, 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: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
- ^ 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, Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225