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Why Aren’t More Roads Made of Rubberized Asphalt Concrete?

Over 240 million tires are thrown out every year in the U.S., and where do they go? According to RideLust, fewer than 7 percent get recycled, 5 percent are exported to other countries, 11 percent are burned for fuel and the rest are either sent to landfills, stockpiled or illegally dumped.  But, there’s a very [...]

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Record Low Number of Drivers on the Road in ’08

Commuters are leaving their cars in their driveways and walking, riding bicycles or flocking toward public transit instead. This is great news to us, since it’s not only reducing vehicular pollution and lowering gas use, it’s also helping to reframe how people think about transportation. The government, however, isn’t as happy about it [...]

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Blacktop Roads About to Get Greener

Signs of American progress on the green front are enormously encouraging. We may be way behind many other developed nations, but we’re slowly awakening from our Bush-induced idiot coma. One such sign is that we’re starting to clean up the process of laying down roads.
Wired’s Autopia blog has it:
There are more than 4 million miles [...]

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