Traditional asphalt repaving and Soil Solutions’ asphalt recycling with EBS stabilization represent fundamentally different approaches to road rehabilitation—with recycling delivering superior performance, sustainability, and value.
Traditional Asphalt Repaving:
Process: Remove old asphalt (sometimes), import new aggregate for base repairs, apply new hot-mix asphalt overlay, and leave old base problems unaddressed.
Problems: Does not fix underlying base weaknesses, cracks reflect through new overlay within years, requires ongoing maintenance (crack sealing, patching), provides limited lifespan extension (5-10 years), and generates waste and consumes new resources.
Asphalt Recycling with EBS Stabilization:
Process: Pulverize existing asphalt and base together, mix with EBS stabilizers to create superior base, compact to create uniformly strong foundation, and apply new surface over engineered base.
Advantages: Fixes underlying base problems permanently, creates deep, stable foundation preventing future failures, delivers 30-40 year performance (triple traditional overlay), requires minimal maintenance over lifecycle, and uses existing materials (minimal waste, low environmental impact).
Performance Comparison:
Structural Integrity: EBS-stabilized recycling creates deep, uniformly strong bases versus thin overlays over weak bases, eliminates crack reflection by removing source of cracks, and handles heavy traffic loads without rutting or failure.
Longevity: Recycled roads with EBS last 30-40 years versus 5-10 years for traditional overlays, require virtually no maintenance versus ongoing crack sealing and patching, and avoid the reflection cracking cycle that plagues traditional repaving.
Environmental Performance: Recycling reuses 100% of materials versus hauling away waste and importing new materials, reduces carbon footprint 70-85% versus traditional methods, and eliminates landfill waste.
Superior recycled road performance. Soil Solutions delivers proven asphalt recycling with EBS: www.soilsolutions.com
