Dive summary:
- The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, has started a program that uses recycled bottles, cups and tubs as material in warm-mix asphalt for street paving.
- The city hopes to see better mileage for drivers and longer pavement life as results of the experiment.
- Warm mix requires less energy than hot-mix asphalt, and gaseous emissions around workers are lower.
From the article:
"The real test is in 20 years to see how much better it has performed."
