diff --git a/lib/src/metta/runner/environment.rs b/lib/src/metta/runner/environment.rs
index 01773fe6f..fe765d5aa 100644
--- a/lib/src/metta/runner/environment.rs
+++ b/lib/src/metta/runner/environment.rs
@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ impl EnvBuilder {
     ///
     /// NOTE: The most recently added paths will have the highest search priority, save for the `working_dir`,
     ///   and paths returned first by the iterator will have higher priority within the same call to add_include_paths.
-    pub fn add_include_paths<P: Borrow<Path>, I: IntoIterator<Item=P>>(mut self, paths: I) -> Self {
-        let mut additional_paths: Vec<PathBuf> = paths.into_iter().map(|path| path.borrow().into()).collect();
+    pub fn add_include_paths<P: AsRef<Path>, I: IntoIterator<Item=P>>(mut self, paths: I) -> Self {
+        let mut additional_paths: Vec<PathBuf> = paths.into_iter().map(|path| path.as_ref().into()).collect();
         additional_paths.extend(self.env.extra_include_paths);
         self.env.extra_include_paths = additional_paths;
         self
diff --git a/lib/src/metta/runner/mod.rs b/lib/src/metta/runner/mod.rs
index b84ba89f6..9f235b707 100644
--- a/lib/src/metta/runner/mod.rs
+++ b/lib/src/metta/runner/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use super::space::*;
 use super::text::{Tokenizer, SExprParser};
 use super::types::validate_atom;
 
-use core::borrow::Borrow;
 use std::rc::Rc;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
@@ -243,8 +242,8 @@ impl Metta {
     }
 
     /// Runs the MeTTa code in the specified file
-    pub fn run_from_file<P: Borrow<Path>>(&self, program_path: P) -> Result<Vec<Vec<Atom>>, String> {
-        let path = program_path.borrow();
+    pub fn run_from_file<P: AsRef<Path>>(&self, path: P) -> Result<Vec<Vec<Atom>>, String> {
+        let path = path.as_ref();
         let program = std::fs::read_to_string(path)
             .map_err(|err| format!("Could not read file, path: {}, error: {}", path.display(), err))?;
         self.run(SExprParser::new(program.as_str()))