Could infusing asphalt with pulp mill waste reduce carbon emissions and potholes? Thunder Bay gives it a try
Jul 11, 2023 09:11AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: Lakehead University graduate student Omotunde Adeniran uses a surveyor's wheel to measure cracks in the lignin-infused asphalt road while Pioneer Construction GM Fred Hakala and FP Innovations supervisor Peter Holt-Hindle stand near an intersection with a regular asphalt road. (Submitted by Omotunde Adeniran)
By Heather Kitching - CBC News - July 11, 2023
By Heather Kitching - CBC News - July 11, 2023
A stretch of road at Thunder Bay's Solid Waste and Recycling Facility, paved with asphalt infused with pulp mill waste is holding up as well as roads paved with a standard, more carbon intense, product.
That's according to the latest inspection by a team at Lakehead University that works in partnership with Pioneer Construction and FP Innovations, the forest industry research and development non-profit that's testing the product.
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