aving the road to a greener future sounds awfully cliché, but that is quite literally Carbon Crusher’s business MO.
The Norwegian tech start-up has been wracking its brains over the last year to think up alternatives to conventional road tar. Since the Romans, there has been little innovation in the area, and the 40 million miles of roads today are mostly made up of crude oil and hardcore.
When maintenance or construction works are needed, which seems to be perpetually happening in London by the way, our current processes are very polluting – that’s 400 million tons of CO2 a year – and in stark contrast to global decarbonisation targets.
