Roads are essential infrastructure, but they're made with nonrenewable materials and have a significant carbon footprint, which opens up recycling opportunities.  Over 94% of paved roads in the U.S ...

Nicholas Erickson, Fitchburg's commissioner of public works, stands on a strip of permeable asphalt walkway installed between sections of traditional concrete in the city’s Gateway Park May 15.

Worcester uses porous pavement on some parking lots at parks. Porous pavement is 10% to 20% more expensive than traditional asphalt. (Correction: Porous pavement is on sections of Interstate 190 ...

Nearby, colorful cartoon posters at a station for Asphalt Pro magazine advertised ... Some proven technologies or designs — like permeable or porous pavement that lets water seep through it ...

To make the asphalt ‘self-healing’, the team incorporated ‘spores’, which are tiny porous materials made from plants. The spores are filled with recycled oils, which are released when the asphalt ...

Already, a few big swaths of asphalt — some parking lots, schoolyards and at least one stretch in Rockaway — have been swapped out for porous pavement. Often, when the porous section of ...

Cars drive slowly through flooded streets in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue on the island of Montreal after heavy rains hit the area on Aug. 9, 2024. Peter Mccabe The Canadian Press To make cities more ...