Sustainability
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Hot Mix Asphalt protects the environment by providing impermeable caps for abandoned landfills and deposits of hazardous materials.
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Asphalt pavements require about 20% less energy to produce and construct than other pavements.
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Asphalt is 100% reusable.
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Up to 100% reclaimed asphalt is re-used in high quality asphalt.
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Bituminous asphalt pavements with intrinsic visco-elastic properties can several times be re-used at the highest performance level, even in new asphalt roads having the same performance level.
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Asphalt is the quiet pavement.
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Recycling plays a major role in saving natural resources.
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Only the necessary pavement thickness depending on traffic and the climate must be applied to get a durable, cost-effective and sustainable road.
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Asphalt is used in domestic water reservoirs, fish rearing ponds, and canal liners.
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Recent research in the Netherlands showed the potential of asphalt pavements to reduce rolling resistance and depending on that reducing fuel consumption
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When used together with re-used asphalt, the CO2e emissions of asphalt can be further reduced.
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Asphalt is quick to pave, reducing congestions waiting time and thus fuel costs for users.
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Warm Mix Asphalts that are produced and laid at reduced temperatures from 100 to 120 °C are ready-for-use within a shorter period of time.
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Asphalt can be laid during off-peak periods (including night working) and still enable the road to be re-opened before the normal daytime traffic flows.
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Future recyclability of asphalt reduces the CO2e emissions considerably.
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With Warm Mix Asphalt energy will be saved and CO2 emissions will be reduced.
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Asphalt surfaces can be made to be extremely quiet.
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Ongoing innovations, such as warm-mix asphalt, reduce fuel consumption and emissions in the asphalt industry.
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Asphalt provides solutions for Railway Tracks.
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Asphalt working with the environment.
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Asphalt ahead of EU recycling targets 2020.
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Asphalt roads can be reused directly where they are.
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Recycling of asphalt in-situ is proven technology.