At a construction site in Abilene, Texas, trucks delivered crushed soda bottles and jam jars instead of regular gravel, and that glass became part of a real road. According to a Texas Department of Transportation research packet on glass cullet in roadway construction, engineers widened Antilley Road in Abilene in May 1997 by blending crushed limestone and glass. It may seem farfetched, but the project was successful enough that the city continued using the approach.
A road built from bottles and jars
