Asphalt is the most recycled product in the United States- even more than paper, aluminum or glass!
Asphalt rubber uses 15-20% recycled rubber from ground up tires to make an asphalt binder.
Cold In-Place Recycling
Cold In-Place Recycling is a pavement rehabilitation method that mills up an existing asphalt pavement, sizes it, mixes in additional asphalt emulsion and lays it back down without off-site hauling and processing.
The future is Cold In-Place full depth processing of the existing Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) and underlying granular base. Cold In-Place Recycling provides economic alternatives to conventional reconstruction processes.
Cold In-Place Recycling undertakes several types of pavement construction and designs:
- Base stabilization of aggregate base only with asphalt binder into a pavement with some version of a surface treatment.
- Cold In-Place Recycling of existing pavement and existing base material with asphalt overlay give added strength to the total pavement section.
- Cold In-Place Recycling encourages green processes, practices and products towards sustainable outcomes while providing transportation infrastructure and services that support our social, environmental and economic goals.
The other benefits to using CIR and recycling existing materials are:
- Conserving natural resources and energy
- Shortens construction time durations minimize congestion and disruption to the public
- Cold processes reduce energy and emissions
- Reduces haulage of material on and off-site is significantly reduced energy (fuel) and emissions