…and create a perfect device to disseminate more microplastics as the bond breaks down.
Do you know what happens to your tires when they go from new with full tread to smooth with no tread? Adding some plastic to the road will add very little and may actually reduce some pollution since road-tire interactions can convert some of those plastics/rubbers.
ITT, people who don’t want their healthy petroleum-based asphalt soiled with unhealthy petroleum-based plastics.
ITT: people who don’t want their 100% recyclable petroleum-based asphalts replaced with totally unrecyclable plastic-based asphalts
Ftfy
Asphalt is recyclable, you can tear it up, drop it in a mixer and after it heats up you can pour it back out.
ADDING PLASTIC BREAKS THIS PROPERTY. DO NOT ADD PLASTIC TO ASPHALT.
