Shell Bitumen CarbonSink in France

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Shell Bitumen CarbonSink, Shell’s new bio-component binder that locks carbon within roads instead of releasing it back into the atmosphere, has been used in France for the first time. The project involved using 20 tonnes of Shell Bitumen CarbonSink in the construction of a car park at Brumath Enrobés’s asphalt production plant in Bas-Rhin, Alsace. The asphalt was laid by civil construction company, Trabet. Shell Bitumen CarbonSink contains a new biocomponent binder that locks carbon into asphalt and bitumen, turning the road into a technical carbon sink. The high level of asphalt recycling around the world ensures carbon remains locked in the binder, even when it is recycled and re-used in the manufacture of new asphalts or other civil engineering applications.