Recyclable Cement

Recyclable Cement

UPDATE: MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - Recycling is a familiar concept, but recycled construction work? Learn more on HOMTV.

ORIGINAL STORY: MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP - A new method of road construction saves money and the environment.

Hot In Place Recycling involves heating the existing pavement, which is then covered by an inch of new asphalt, costing the Ingham County Road Commission
roughly $600,000.

Meridian Township's Director of Public Works and Engineering, Ray Severy says, "What we're really trying to do with the whole program is to make our streets last as long as we can, because once they get to a certain point and really start falling apart, they would have to rebuild them and that's much more expensive."

In fact, the cost to completely redo a damaged street if five or six times as much as Hot in Place Recycling process. Not to mention, it's much quicker. The asphalt hits the pavement at over 350 degrees and within hours this newly paved road if fully open to traffic.

Hot in Place Recycling replaces the need to rebuild a road completely and in the end, "We end up with what looks like, and what really is, a newly paved street," says Severy.

A total of 17 streets are scheduled to be resurfaced. All Hot in Place Recycling projects are complete at this time, and all resurfacing should be complete by the end of this month.

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