Reuse recycled rubber tires in roads other useful produces

[constructionfan86]

I'm amazed that roads paved with asphalt mixed with rubber actually last longer than conventional asphalt pavement.Not only old recycled tires can be used as extra ingredients in asphalt mix,they can also be used for chip sealing where they add the crumb rubber into the chip stones.This is known as rubberized chip seal which last longer than conventional chip seal.

[lancsFrogger]

is it a good way to reuse rubber? i mean rubbers expensive, environmentally. & whilst it can't be devulcanized at the moment (least not in a commercially viable way) it may soon be able to be so

could be an awful waste of a high quality & expensive natural product to get used to making roads out of it

just something to bear in mind

[MrMeganolife]

Wonder how it holds up under fire. I do know the usual stuff can burn if the area near a hot enough fire, but will the rubberized asphalt go up like a 100+ mile stretch of tire mountain?

[jaked08]

Wow, it's been working out good for 7 straight years and it hasn't expanded yet? Why don't they start laying down rubber roads when they re-construct em?

[trailtreeisland]

at least they thought to remove the steel belts, a number of years ago a road caught fire and smoldered because the steel rusted and caught fire.

[TheChokebuster]

gotta be better then that shitty chip and seal they are using here!

[defauwes]

does anyone know the name of the company that manufactures this product in Phoenix??

[cdlmn63]

4 large asphalt plants mix the product and use them in phx. on the road ways at this time the rubber comes from a plant in mesa where the tires are recycled

[PukkPukk]

Very Cool.

[NipkowDisk]

This is a truly outstanding innovation. What needs to happen here in the USA is mandate its use on federal-aid projects; that way BIG OIL would have extreme difficulty trying to extinguish its adaptation. Then again, who finances the political campaigns...? The saga continues.

But I do hope this crumb-rubber asphalt idea is widely implemented someday soon.

[trainerlance]

You would think that it would be cheaper because of all of the availability of the old tires. Too bad.

[javierneptuno]

exelente para puerto rico