- Two cold-process options are in use today for asphalt for highway paving and repair, and they may be moving into parking lots.
- One process, cold in-place recycling, does the scraping, milling and mixing on the job site. Cold central-plant recycling adds a step of hauling millings to a central location where new, cold asphalt is made, but it still saves money and mess.
- The numbers are only estimates, but the best guess is that 45 million tons of recycled cold-process asphalt is being made in the U.S. annually.
From the article:
It may be a matter of time before we see cold in-place recycling (CIPR) in commercial parking areas. As an eco-friendly pavement process, CIPR rehabs old asphalt without using heat. ...