But using such plastic as a replacement for bitumen is cost-effective, claims Mr McCartney.

但是使用这种塑料作为替代品是很合算，麦卡特尼说。

Here is the Standard of Ur where mosaic inlaid in bitumen showed the scenes that mattered most.

这是乌尔军上镶嵌马赛克图案展现了当时最为重要场景。

The process of heating and separating bitumen from the sand requires millions of cubic meters of water.

加热沙子和从中分离过程需要数百万立方米水。

The rubberised bitumen itself is flexible and slightly springy, which enables it to absorb more unwanted sonic energy.

而参入了橡胶本身也具有柔韧性和轻微弹性，这以使它吸收更多讨厌音波能量。

At present 5-10% of the bitumen is replaced by the additives, but this could be increased to 25%.

目前，5-10%被添加剂替代，但这个比例增加至25%。

As an example, he says that a tonne of bitumen might cost around 400 pounds ($521) in Britain.

例如，他说一公吨在英国成本约为400英镑（521美元）。

An alternative method of using recycled plastic is to mix the material into hot bitumen when making asphalt.

使用回收塑料另一种替代方法是在制作柏油时，将材料混合进热中。

The additive would replace a proportion of the bitumen, so there are savings to be made.

添加剂替代部分，因此以有所节省。

There is a connection. Just as plastic is derived from petrochemicals, bitumen is produced as a by-product of refining oil.

其中有一个联系。塑料源自石油化工产品，而生产是精炼油脂副产品。

As this thick bitumen is found near the earth's surface, forests are razed to extract the oil.

由于这种厚厚位于地表附近， 因此人们砍伐森林来开采石油。

“Many people do not like the smell of overheated bitumen, which spreads during the repair process, so they decided to try it.”

许多人不喜欢修路过程中散发热乎乎柏油味道，于是他们决定尝试一下。”

By adding rubber " crumbs" , reclaimed from shredded tyres, to the bitumen and crushed stone used to make asphalt, engineers are designing quieter streets.

在和碎石里添加从轮胎碎片中回收废胶末，再铺成柏油路，这样工程师以设计更加安静街道。

That is more than three times as much as the 120m tonnes of bitumen produced annually, most of which goes into building the world's roads.

这是每年生产1.2亿公吨三倍还多，大部分都被用于建造世界范围内公路。

3 They said to one another, " Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire." They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.

3 他们彼此说：「来，我们做砖，用火烧透。」他们遂拿砖当石，拿代灰泥。

Uberbinder is a revolutionary organic polymer  binder that's purpose engineered to replace the carbon and energy-intensive cement and  bitumen binders in concrete and asphalt.

Uberbinder 是一种革命性有机聚合物粘合剂，旨在取代混凝土和中碳和能源密集型水泥和粘合剂。

Transportation infrastructure, construction and  road building are responsible for over one third of our emissions worldwide and one third  of that comes from cement and bitumen.

交通基础设施、建筑和道路建设占我们全球排放量三分之一以上，其中三分之一来自水泥和。

It is crude and polluting, but it provides a fix of sorts. A number of roads in India are also made by mixing chopped-up plastic into bitumen.

这种方法粗糙且会造成污染，但提供了固定种类。印度很多公路也是通过将碎塑料与混合制成。

I knew that there must be some similarities between plastic and bitumen, which both come from oil. That's how I started to think about mixing them, he said.

我知道塑料和之间一定有一些相似之处，它们都来自石油。 “这就是我开始考虑将它们混合起来原因，”他说。

10 Now the Valley of Siddim was full of bitumen pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into these, while the rest fled to the mountains.

10 息丁山谷遍地是坑；索多玛王和哈摩辣王逃跑时都跌在坑里；其余人都逃到山里去了。

It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.

它由碎石、橡胶和聚氨酯制成，人造塑胶聚氨酯以代替，因为这种粘合剂以允许更大气孔存在于路面。