Sharjah to use recycled rubber for road construction

Rubber is dumped into landfills sites everyday in various forms, tires, industrial waste and at times, disposed of erasers too. Well, all this rubber needs recycling and reusing. So Sharjah, UAE came up with a great way to put recycled rubber to use. Rubber roads. The first of its kind ever in the UAE, these roads will first be poured in a month, and might soon be a standard in Sharjah and UAE. According to Samer Kamal, managing director of Bee’ah, the Sharjah Environment Company, the top twenty percent of these roads will be rubber, with construction rates dropping by 30%.

These roads have quite a few benefits too. They help increase traction between the car’s tires and the road, increased driver safety, skid prevention and reduced noise levels. Rubber roads have already found their place in Arizona, in the United States, and require lesser maintenance than the usual roads. They last longer too. 3,500 to 4,000 tires are delivered every day at Sharjah’s landfill site for recycling. These will soon find their place in Sharjah’s roads.
[ArabianBusiness]