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Scientists Design Sustainable and More Resistant Asphalt Using Cigarette Butts
SPAIN, JUL 22 – Scientists developed asphalt incorporating cigarette butts that improves crack resistance and increases recycled content, addressing 9 trillion cigarette butts produced annually, research shows.
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Recycled cigarette butts can make roads more durable
Cigarette butts create a massive and messy environmental burden. To help address the ongoing issue, engineers recently developed a method to extract something beneficial from the discarded trash. According to their findings, published in the journal Construction and Building Materials, cigarette filters can substantially strengthen recycled asphalt ahead of its reapplication onto roads. Cigarette butts may be tiny, but they add up. The World Hea…
Scientists design sustainable and more resistant asphalt using cigarette butts
Since the advent of filter cigarettes, cigarette butts have become a predominant form of waste, with projections indicating that about 9 trillion will be generated annually by 2025. In addition, since the emergence of low-nicotine e-cigarettes, the consumption and production of this waste has been on the rise (especially among young people aged 14 to 30).
How to remove the butts from our sidewalks? Every year, eight billion people are thrown on the ground in the country. It is not easy to overcome this bad habit. But some municipalities have found ingenious solutions to encourage smokers to throw them into giant ashtrays. Butts can thus have a second unsuspecting life. In Doullens, 25 ashtrays have been installed everywhere for the past two years. Butts are then transformed into fiber used as ins…
Researchers from the University of Granada collaborate with the University of Bologna (Italy) in the design and evaluation of asphalt resistance made from cigarette pellets, a work co-financed by the Government of China.Continue reading...
Details: A project of Spanish and Italian researchers aims to recycle butts to create a more resistant and sustainable type of asphalt.
The experience gained with the Masai flooring range, developed at the UGR, allows the University to be part of this international project The particle accelerator of Granada about to obtain the total of the necessary funding
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