I was watching How It’s Made recently, and they did asphalt. The components were crushed granite in three different sizes, sand, and some “cement” that is a byproduct of oil refining. And I’m sitting there watching it thinking, “Wow. We’re doing this on purpose.”
Doing what? As far as road surfaces go, asphalt is the most environmentally friendly (other than just having only dirt roads). Concrete emits CO2 as an inherent part of the process, and a brick road would be hilariously expensive, and non-durable. Asphalt also has the distinction of being the most recycled material on the planet. And not just in a “10% get recycled and everything is less” sense. Almost all asphalt ends up being recycled into more asphalt.
We’re in the !fuckcars community. What do you think? We’re building more roads instead of more rails. We’re building wider roads instead of using more buses and bicycles.
Edit: And to be clear, we’re doing all of that by putting industrial waste on top of our land.
I was watching How It’s Made recently, and they did asphalt. The components were crushed granite in three different sizes, sand, and some “cement” that is a byproduct of oil refining. And I’m sitting there watching it thinking, “Wow. We’re doing this on purpose.”
Doing what? As far as road surfaces go, asphalt is the most environmentally friendly (other than just having only dirt roads). Concrete emits CO2 as an inherent part of the process, and a brick road would be hilariously expensive, and non-durable. Asphalt also has the distinction of being the most recycled material on the planet. And not just in a “10% get recycled and everything is less” sense. Almost all asphalt ends up being recycled into more asphalt.
We’re in the !fuckcars community. What do you think? We’re building more roads instead of more rails. We’re building wider roads instead of using more buses and bicycles.
Edit: And to be clear, we’re doing all of that by putting industrial waste on top of our land.
Asphalt is at least the most recycled material we use. I guess except water technically speaking.
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