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Future roads may contain 100% more pig poop

Future roads may contain 100% more pig poop

14th Jul 2016

A team of researchers at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University is testing a substance made from pig manure to use as an asphalt binder to replace petroleum-based products, according to a report by the National Science Foundation(NSF).

Civil Engineer Ellie Fini and partners, with support from the NSF, has created a product that costs 56 cents per gallon to process and is holding up to “rigorous” testing. Fini and her co-researchers have filed patents on the product and have created a company named Bio-Adhesive Alliance. Their plan is to provide a “win-win solution” for farmers and the construction industry. Odorous components are filtered out during the processing, the researchers say, and the leftover byproducts can be used as fertilizer.

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