Hi- Has anyone thought about how asphalt is recycled at a high rate. One one modest sized project we recycled 13,000,000 lbs of asphalt into the pavement of a new structure. The problem we ran into was from some rubberized asphalt. When the mix of recycled asphalt and new aggregate are mixed together they heat it up to very high temperatures. The rubber burns and makes the recycled mix much weaker. Has anyone recycled this new plastic asphalt? Does it burn? Does it make recycling more difficult?
Chip off a chunk of cement from the wall of the elementary school in Granados, Guatemala, and you’ll see that its interior is a neatly stacked layer of...
Hi- Has anyone thought about how asphalt is recycled at a high rate. One one modest sized project we recycled 13,000,000 lbs of asphalt into the pavement of a new structure. The problem we ran into was from some rubberized asphalt. When the mix of recycled asphalt and new aggregate are mixed together they heat it up to very high temperatures. The rubber burns and makes the recycled mix much weaker. Has anyone recycled this new plastic asphalt? Does it burn? Does it make recycling more difficult?