Dive Brief:

• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport began recycling runways that are no longer servicing planes.
• The tarmac will be repurposed, put to use in the construction of a new runway project.
• The new runway will be 7,000 feet long and 150 feet wide when construction is finished in September of 2014.

Dive Insight:

The debris from the former runway has filled 1,185 truckloads. 7 million cubic feet of fill are needed for the project.