i was wondering about how to use old transport truck tires to reinforce bridge piers and supports from river washouts . tires layered around bridge piers and on river banks could be filled with cement and locked together by just the cement or maybe reinforced with lengths of rebar driven into the ground though the openings of the tires . seems to me this would make a heck of a good method to stop flooding damage underneath bridges .

Here in the NE we had a lot of freezing and thawing all winter that cause the road beds to swell and shrink which breaks up the bituminous concrete on the roads. How would some of these methods do in our environment?

Its about time Honestly nobody ever thought about the waste being generated and it being put to use to reduce pollution of land air environment, Good !its being done.

I think would be a good idea to ad some kind of coating to asphalt to protect it and to give it more cohesion, rubber-like properties, making it more durable and distributing load better giving it more resistence to pressure and weather