Workers in Washtenaw County have paved a section of Ellsworth Road with a mix of asphalt and shredded tires. This marks the first test of this mix in the county. The project turned over 7,000 old tires into road surface between Platt and Carpenter Roads.
The test splits into two sections. One half uses standard pavement, while the other contains the tire blend. With around 20,000 vehicles crossing daily, the road provides ideal conditions to check how well this new mix performs.
“For this special asphalt material . . . we included quite some tire rubber coming from waste tires or scrap tires. So, roughly, we use about 10% of the equivalent asphalt liquid,” said Dr. Zhanping You, according to WEMU…