…but this time, not with cement, but with asphalt!

So, as I mentioned earlier this month, the Dutch town of Hengelo has started to utilize the pollutant-cleaning cement that I first found out about in early June. Well, Madrid is paving a road with asphalt that has a coating that claims to capture and convert 90% of the pollutants on a sunny day. Once this is captured and converted, it can then be washed away. This coating could definitely have a better name, but they ended up calling it “noxer”. Let’s hope initial tests of this asphalt coating work out well!

As an extra side note, Madrid is also placing asphalt made from recycled tires on another road in an effort to reduce road noise. If that really works, we should pave all highways around the country in that!

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