We've posted about recycled asphalt – including in 2018 about the World’s first ‘fully recycled road’:
Eurovia, part of Vinci – the company that now owns South West Highways – has recently completed a motorway renovation project in France using 100% recycled asphalt; in other words, "extracts from quarries were not used at any stage":
The bulk of the supply can be sourced from the milling of materials produced by the site, thereby partly or fully protecting natural resources and reducing both transport logistics and the site’s carbon footprint to a minimum, with a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
OK, so that was in France. Now, in the UK, Minster Group is working with Lincolnshire County Council to raise the quantity of recycled material in the authority’s roads from 50% to 90%. Minster’s managing director says:
We’re working to create systems which will significantly reduce the reliance on quarries, prevent more material from going to waste and reduce the distance that material has to be transported.
What does he see as the main obstacle? Mindset:
...the difficulty is in changing the mindset of the industry to accept this way of working, rather than the cost of it.
New roads for old... https://t.co/MmgNJtAq0W #constructionnews #construction #news pic.twitter.com/DWOsr7dlXd— Construction Index (@TCIndex) May 6, 2020
