A sustainable barrier including a waste material and a binder is provided. The binder is mixed with the waste material and configured to bind the waste material into the sustainable barrier. The binder includes a catalyst configured to enable the binder to bind the waste material into the sustainable barrier. The sustainable barrier has a maximum load rating of at least 25,000 pounds.

The present disclosure provides for articles formed of a filled polymeric resin material. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to polymeric resin materials that include a filler that includes of a mixture of cured rubber granules, foam granules, and/or textile fibers. The filler can be suspended in and/or encapsulated by the polymeric resin material. The polymeric resin material, the filler, or both can include waste or scrap material from manufacturing or from ground post-consumer waste.

A solution to the two major problems that exist today, on the one hand, by recovering the textile fibers extracted from the recycling and Processing of ELTs and, on the other hand, by providing the asphalt paving industry with an alternative mixture with superior performance to that of existing conventional mixtures. More specifically, a granulated additive based on textile fibers and rubber powder from end-of-life tires, having (a) 20% to 30% of textile fiber composed mainly of polyamide or polyester fibers, which together are of the order of 10% by weight of an ELT, (b) 20% to 50% of asphalt binder, (c) 25% to 45% of rubber powder from end-of-life tires in a fraction smaller than 0.5 mm, and (d) 3% to 10% of rubber powder from end-of-life tires in a fraction smaller than 0.18 mm. In addition, the method for obtaining same and its use in asphalt mixtures.

Described herein are asphaltite-based adducts and polymers and methods of making the same. Asphaltite may be modified with a reagent such as polyphosphoric acid. The reagent may modify the asphaltite or portions or moieties thereof to possess a positive charge. The reagent may also activate the asphaltite or portions thereof to enable epoxy and/or urethane polymerization reactions within the asphaltite or portions thereof, and/or to enable cross-linking of the asphaltite-based polymers or adducts. Products incorporating asphaltite-based polymers and adducts are also described.

A rubber composition, which allows unexpectedly improved tearability performance while having maintained or improved hysteresis performance, is based on at least an elastomer matrix, a reinforcing filler, a plasticizing agent, and a crumb rubber. A ratio by weight of the total amount of the reinforcing filler to that of the plasticizing agent is less than 4.50. The total amount of the reinforcing filler and the crumb rubber is more than 30 phr and less than 70 phr. A ratio by weight of the total amount of the crumb rubber to that of the reinforcing filler is more than 0.20 and less than 2.50.