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The Malaysian pavements come under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Department (JKR) and the Malaysian Highway Authorities (LLM). The JKR alone is responsible for about 11,000 km long of road stretches and the Department spends on average RM400 million every year to maintain the existing roads and about RM600 million per year on new roads. Resurfacing the existing roads with rubberized bitumen would drastically lower the maintenance cost. Furthermore the friction course for new roads can be constructed with the rubberized bitumen and this will increase its life cycle and reduce its maintenance cost. Although there will be an extra initial cost of about 15% this can be recovered through the reduction in the maintenance and long life cycle costs.

It is estimated that Malaysia production of scrap tires is about 10 million pieces per annum and they are currently being disposed in an environmentally unfriendly manner - either burnt or buried in designated areas. The production is expected to increase in the future and the incorporation of these tires in roads would greatly reduce a potential environmental disaster in the country
 
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