[music] >> male speaker: starting from left to right,what is the number one recycled product in america? >> female speaker 1: paper? >> male speaker: paper. >> female speaker 2: bottles. >> male speaker: bottle. >> female speaker 3: i will say plastic. >> male speaker: plastic.
>> female speaker 4: cans? aluminum? >> male speaker: aluminum. ok. will you besurprised to know that asphalt, that stuff that we just recycled in place, is by weightthe number one recycled product in america? >> female speaker 1: i did not know that. >> female speaker 4: well that's actuallygood then. >> male speaker: that's great, isn't it? >> female speaker 4: that's good. >> female speaker 1: yeah. >> female speaker 4: yes.
>> blair: hey, this is blair barnhardt andi'm in sequoia forest. it's a national park in california to tell you how happy iam to be here today. on behalf of the international pavement management association, i'm justhere to spread the news about a tiny seed that can grow into a 2000-year-old tree andwhat kind of impact this can have on our country and the world. i want to have better infrastructure herein america and the world. right now we have d-minus infrastructure. everywhere we go,we have crumbling roads. and you know what? it doesn't have to be like that. every timei come to one of these national parks, i hear "eco-efficient," "less carbon footprint,""preserve our park". you know what? we
can do that. in some countries, in some states,some cities, some counties are doing that already; just not enough of us. so i'm not going to sleep if that's whati have to do and i will drive every mile in america to spread the word, driving americafor better roads just for you and here's the reason why. in-place asphalt recycling,pavement preservation and a solid pavement management program time and time again savesmoney and i'm talking hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars for cities, countiesand states. in fact, one state alone, nevada, has savedover $600 million by doing just this over the last 25 years. so, you know what? if itworks for nevada dot, it ought to work for
every dot in america and every city and everycounty. so, here's what we do folks. i travel allover america. i spread the word through video, through blogs, through ebooks, through theuniversity programs that i do. whatever the message is, it's going to be the same message.three-legged stool -- pavement preservation, in-place asphalt recycling and solid pavementmanagement. you know what? asphalt is the number one recycled product. but guess what,we only use in-place asphalt recycling on about three percent of our roads in america.all the rest of it gets milled up and taken back to the plants and brought back to thejob site. well, you know what? the rocks are 200 million years old. they sat in the quarryfor 200 million years. we crush them up 20
years ago, brought them out to the roadwayand put them in place. you have the best asphalt cement in your roadway,the best rock in your roadway already. there is no need for costly user delay to mill itup and take it back to the plant and to have 35 tandem dump trucks hauling it back to thejob site. in-place asphalt recycling, hot in-place recycling, cold in-place recycling,full depth reclamation. get your pci, pavement condition index established. get that networkof roads evaluated by professionals that can give you some direction on the most cost-effectiverepairs. we don't have to keep doing things the same way folks. now, had we used the same mentality in thisforest that we use on the roads today, i would
have been standing on a stump because everytree in this forest would have been cut down. but no, we chose to preserve this forest andmany of the gorgeous national parks that we have here in america. i'm asking you america, can we preserveour own roadways now? in-place asphalt recycling, pavement preservation, pavement management.this is blair barnhardt driving america for better roads from the sequoia national parkin kings canyon. thanks for joining us. we will see you next stop. >> female speakers: driving america ... >> male speaker: for better roads.
>> female speakers: ... for better roads! >> male speaker: thanks for joining us.