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Which is the Most Recycled Product in the US?

Which is the Most Recycled Product in the US?

If I asked you which is the most recycled product, what would you guess?
You might say aluminum cans, which have long held the lead among consumer products, but in the industrial world, it's on literally on the road - recycled pavement.
99% of all asphalt is recycled and used to fix and build roads over and over again.
A variety of recycled materials are in that pavement - recycled roof shingles, ground rubber from tires, glass, foundry sand, slag and even pig manure, says the Nation Asphalt Pavement Association.