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November 6, 2020

The World’s Most Recycled Material

Filed under: Economics, Technology — Tags: , , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Practical Engineering
Published 6 Aug 2020

Exploring the complexities that go into the creation and application of asphalt concrete.
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Of all the ubiquitous things in our environment, roads are probably one of the least noticed. Our roads see tremendous volumes of traffic and withstand considerable variations in weather and climate, and they do it on a pretty tight budget. That’s really only possible because of all the scientists, engineers, contractors, and public works crews keeping up with this simple but incredible material called asphalt.

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1 Comment

  1. For a lighter take on it, there’s always “Hot Asphalt” by the Dubliners:

    ‘Tis twelve months come October since I left me native home
    After helping them Killarney boys to bring the harvest down
    But now I wear the gansey and around me waist a belt
    I’m the gaffer of the squad that makes the hot asphalt

    Well, we laid it in a hollows and we laid it in the flat
    And if it doesn’t last forever, sure I swear, I’ll eat me hat
    Well, I’ve wandered up and down the world and sure I never felt
    Any surface that was equal to the hot asphalt

    Comment by Nicholas — November 6, 2020 @ 09:40

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