This winter's extreme temperatures and freeze-thaw cycle have made potholes in St. Paul particularly bad. This year, the city ...

Bill Buttlar, a professor at the University of Missouri, highlights takeaways in the university’s research on using recycled low-density polyethylene in asphalt paving materials. In August 2021, the ...

A Caterpillar 950G wheel loader scoops used shingles into the hopper which force feeds them into a rotor to be broken into consistent sizes. Dem-Con Recovery & Recycling, a subsidiary of Dem-Con ...

Jon Klein, the project manager at Gee Asphalt Systems, expected to hear a job proposal, but he didn’t have specifics. It was a Friday in the late summer of Ames, Iowa, in the 4.5-acre parking lots ...

The use of recycled material in new product is on the rise, both for cost and environmental reasons. It’s a natural fit for the asphalt production industry where there is such a constant demand for ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The process of street repaving typically involves removing the old asphalt layer and replacing it with fresh asphalt but the progress will be different on some ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 11 to 13 million tons of asphalt shingles end up in US landfills each year, where it will take upwards of 300 years for them to break down. Every ...

The report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says recycled plastics are an underused resource and that action is needed at the federal, state and local levels to ...