In every corner of the metro, and across Minnesota, you’ll find construction crews ripping up roads and rebuilding bridges.
Work being done along Interstate 494 in Bloomington is just one of 200 projects the Minnesota Department of Transportation has scheduled this summer to fix up highways, bridges and other infrastructure. That’s a lot of asphalt, concrete and steel being removed and replaced.
“We build out specifications with the anticipation that the material that’s already on the job is going to get reused either on that job or another job,” said Curt Turgeon, MnDOT’s director of the office of materials and road research. “We really don’t in the industry use the term ‘waste.’ What you’ll hear is ‘recycled.'”…