An EU initiative introduced a novel road surface containing an important amount of recycled car tyres and bound with an elastic resin. The innovation reduces traffic noise in an extreme way, while providing an eco-friendly alternative for disposing of end-of-life tyres.
Traffic noise abatement can be drastically improved by incorporating elasticity into a road’s top layer to suppress tyre vibrations. The EU-funded PERSUADE (Poroelastic road surface: An innovation to avoid damages to the environment) project developed such a noise-abating material using recycled tyre shreds.
Further details: State-of-the-art road surfacing to substantially cut traffic noise