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Arizona Enables Asphalt Recycling

by Alex Scott
January 11, 2016 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 94, Issue 2

A bicyclist riding on a path marked as 100% recycled asphalt.
Credit: Port of Rotterdam
This bicycle path in Rotterdam is made from recycled asphalt.

The cycling-mad city of Rotterdam is set to be the first in the Netherlands to have a cycle lane made entirely from 100% recycled asphalt, thanks to the use of a pine-based additive made by Arizona Chemical and developed with Dutch asphalt producer KWS Infra. When old asphalt is treated with the additive, it can be handled just as if it were new, according to Arizona.

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