applications and locations: from driveways to runways, from the barn floor to the ocean floor.
Bitumen is also used worldwide as a practical solution to water storage, flood control, erosion, and conservation problems. Bitumen has been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and used successfully as a primary liner for both sanitary and hazardous waste landfills.
You'll find Bitumen all around you in a variety of uses, including:
Transportation -
Highways, rail beds for transit systems, airport runways
Recreational -
Running tracks, greenway trails, playgrounds, bicycle and golf cart paths, racetracks, basketball and tennis courts
Aquatic -
Fish hatcheries, reservoir liners, industrial retention ponds, sea walls, dikes and groins to control beach erosion
Residential -
Driveways, subdivision roads
Agricultural -
Cattle feed lots, poultry house floors, barn floors, greenhouse floor
Industrial -
Work sites, log yards, ports, freight yards, landfill caps |