Why are roads made of asphalt?

It’s estimated that there are tens of millions of miles of paved roads on Earth.

But where does all that asphalt go when it is no longer needed?

To recycling, of course! Find out more here.

#engineering

[brettbronson]

Not to worried about cost, just grateful for the hard working people that put in the hours to make quality of life better anywhere in the world.

[BrilliantDesignOnline]

Super interesting; I had no idea SO much asphalt was recycled.

[bhavya_]

Oh that's why the car game is named asphalt

[emanate]

not to be a negative nancy BUT kinda lol at the end saying "this is just one of the proactive ways the construction industry is taking to reduce its environmental impact". well dayum guess we don't have to worry about a thing lol! anyway some good info here, cheers.

[kingramsingh]

Minimum temp of mix at site 140 C
For DBM

[ryhol]

Unlike plastics, it’s regularly recycled and reused in the real world often in same geographical area

[ironboley]

And when it rains, all that mix goes into the rivers

[franciscocarlos-xyqv]

It costs $100 dollars a ton where I live.

[bantugilbert]

Can we use recycled plastics in the asphalt mixture

[jvalette]

What about the emissions of asphalt ? Actually driving an electric car doesn't make much difference, the way the road is made does.

[TOPDadAlpha]

Very interesting. How about using recycled vehicle tires? Is that being done? It would help landfills

[iBECKENGINEERING]

do we have a better way of constructing roads than using asphalt?

[orenji]

then why are roads not built with asphalt by defaul?!

[onamissionable]

Asphalt it's alot, but its not cost effective cause in 3yrs time you have to redoit again. It's a cheap and fast fix, but stupid.

[Darkstalker]

Mmmm... Asphalt looks like chocolate crumbles 😋

[maazshahid]

It's not 'B Chew min'. It's 'B 2 min'

[deannaspencer]

All Stores Please Lower the cost of all Military and Local for all Brands of Asphalt Products and Accessories and Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

[Mordant.Melodys]

RAP baby, RAP. Cost effective and easy to reclaim. As long as your company aren’t cheap bastards using tons of fines to reduce costs. I love asphalt. I love paving. I love being a QC tech!

[jkmwll]

How can I dislike this again. BS after BS afer BS afrer BS ...

[Jakariya.]

in Bangladesh, asphalt never gets recycled.