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Every road’s dirty secret: Asphalt emits pollution than the cars that drive on it – The New Daily
When a road is laid with asphalt, there’s a strong peaty smell that eventually fades. What doesn’t fade are the toxic, environmentally inappropriate emissions when road surfaces get hot.
When a road is laid with asphalt, there’s a strong peaty smell that eventually fades, leaving the tarmac to be perfumed by traffic fumes.
But according to a new study, in the summer, when the road surface heats up to 60 degrees Celsius, “it becomes a heavier pollutant than both unleaded (petrol) and diesel from our cars combined.”
The Yale researchers found that the emissions “climbed by an average of 70 per cent for every extra 20 (degrees Celsius) increase”.
These effects were measured in A…
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