Most people visit Yellowstone National Park to take in the natural scenery and get away from the usual hustle and bustle of tech-filled lives. But as it turns out, Yellowstone is employing an interesting new concrete technology which could soon become a popular paving method elsewhere as well.
Yellowstone officials recently installed a 4,000-square-foot walkway in the park made of a unique new type of concrete called Flexi-Pave, according to Business Insider. Flexi-Pave consists of a mixture of tires, stone and a proprietary binder, and one square foot of the concrete is capable of absorbing an astounding 3,000 gallons of water per hour. This comes in handy in Yellowstone, since the park contains about 66 percent of all the geysers on the planet. The park’s new “thirsty” pathway absorbs water and distributes it back into aquifers before it can mix with local contaminates, which is a really big benefit in the ecologically-sensitive environment of Yellowstone.
Yellowstone might be the most notable example of Flexi-Pave’s applications, but it’s far from the first time the concrete has been used as a paving material. According to Kevin Bagnall, founder and CEO of the company that created Flexi-Pave, at least 200 cities throughout the US have begun using the eco-friendly concrete in their own paving projects.
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