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Tacoma is homing in on improving streets. On Monday, for instance, the city launched the week-long campaign dubbed “Pothole Palooza” to broadcast its efforts toward repairing less-than-pristine roads.

Recycled asphalt pavement is fast becoming a compelling alternative to concrete and gravel due to its lower cost and ...

Hawaii has a plastic problem. The island state faces economic and logistical challenges in recycling plastic waste, including ...

(THE CONVERSATION) More than 90% of paved roads in the U.S. are made of asphalt, which is constructed with nonrenewable materials such as petroleum. One way to make paving more sustainable is to ...

Jon Klein, the project manager at Gee Asphalt Systems, expected to hear a job proposal, but he didn’t have specifics. It was a Friday in the late summer of Ames, Iowa, in the 4.5-acre parking lots ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The process of street repaving typically involves removing the old asphalt layer and replacing it with fresh asphalt but the progress will be different on some ...

The use of recycled material in new product is on the rise, both for cost and environmental reasons. It’s a natural fit for the asphalt production industry where there is such a constant demand for ...

A Caterpillar 950G wheel loader scoops used shingles into the hopper which force feeds them into a rotor to be broken into consistent sizes. Dem-Con Recovery & Recycling, a subsidiary of Dem-Con ...

Significant economic and environmental benefits provide motivation to use more recycled asphalt materials (RAM) in asphalt mixtures. The National Asphalt Pavement Association estimates that 98.1 ...

The City of Greater Sudbury isn’t currently looking at this means of asphalt recycling, but is still recycling asphalt using ...