Road builders are testing fossil-free asphalt

At the end of July, a group of road builders and asphalt experts paved a section of road with fossil-free asphalt for the first time in the Netherlands. In this so-called resin asphalt, the binding agent is 100 percent organic. It is an important and major step in the development of bio-asphalt, the road builders say. “With this product, the asphalt of the Dutch road network can…