The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet District One is taking on a unique recycling project expected to save taxpayers $1 million over the next six to eight years.
KYTC Smithland Section Engineer Austin Hart, who came up with the idea, said they are taking concrete waste material from the Interstate 24 rehabilitation project in Trigg, Caldwell, and Lyon counties and re-purposing it.
District spokesman Keith Todd said there would be more waste material later this summer, as the other side of the interstate will be rehabilitated.
More information about residents being able to use the recycled product will be released later.
Todd added there is a Trigg County farm that is also benefiting from some of the concrete waste.
Hart said the recycling project is expected to cost up to $250,000, but they could also recover around $70,000 or more in scrap steel from inside the concrete waste.
Hart said the recycling project is being handled in-house with help from the Lyon County Maintenance Crew. He added he is unaware of any other projects like this anywhere else across the state.
