The road to beating the heating:

The road to beating the heating

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Across the globe, Japan’s Meteorological Agency confirmed that June averaged 2.34 °C above normal nationwide, the highest since records began in 1898.
And a stubborn heat-dome over the U.S. Northeast drove Newark, New Jersey to 103 °F (39.4 °C), tying its hottest June day on record and warping highways from Missouri to Massachusetts.

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Roads as an unexpected cooling climate lever

We create cooler local environments: 
Our BioBound roads can withstand extreme heat and, as long as they remain unpaved, and significantly lower surface temperatures. They also provide local cooling effects, as we avoid using bitumen-based additives that bucle under heat. And yes—under many conditions, they can stay unpaved, as they are up to 350% stronger than conventional gravel roads.

we contribute to cooling the planet:
Humanity has paved an estimated 64.7 million kilometres of roads—about 455 billion square metres of surface.   If Carbon Crusher’s in-place recycling method, which locks a minimum of 5 kg of CO2 into every square metre, were applied to just 10 % of that network, it would sequester roughly 230 million tonnes of CO2 That is equivalent to eliminating the annual exhaust of about 50 million fossil-fuel cars, based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s figure of 4.6 tonnes per vehicle per year.

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How the technology works

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Crush-and-reuse – Mobile equipment pulverises the existing asphalt and base instead of hauling it away with Single-pass reconstruction – Effective delivery powered by rigorous analysis and our SkyRoadsAI software

Bio-binder infusion – Biopolymer based binder, permanently storing biogenic carbon.

Carbon-negative lifecycle – Fewer truck movements slash construction emissions, while the bio-binder turns the finished pavement into a long-term carbon sink.

The approach is already proven: on Tuddalsveien in Telemark, Norway, Carbon Crusher rebuilt 1 km of county road last year for a quarter of the conventional cost while delivering a net-negative carbon footprint.
What’s holding us back?
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Public procurement rules in many countries still reward the lowest price per square meter refurbished, rather than the lowest life-cycle cost and carbon impact. Updating tender criteria to value verified carbon removal—much as energy labels transformed the appliance market—would let climate-positive methods compete on equal footing.
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The road ahead‍
Even if only one-tenth of the world’s roads were rebuilt the Carbon Crusher way, the climate benefit would match taking every car in Germany, the UK and France off the road for a year. As heat records topple from Lisbon to Tokyo, turning highways into carbon sponges is no longer a thought experiment—it’s a proven and well documented solution.

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