Government Liquidation completes largest auction with sale of recycled asphalt

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has sold 160 million pounds of recycled asphalt that it generated from pulverized roads and runways on Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. The sale of the recycled asphalt was sold through Government Liquidation, the exclusive contractor of the DLA Disposition Services for the sale of surplus and scrap assets of the DOD.

Government Liquidation sold the asphalt through competitive online auctions over the course of two years in seven separate sales. The quantities sold ranged from 42 million pounds down to 8 million pounds, with all of the sales conducted through the DOD’s sales channel at Government Liquidation.

The auction site says the sale was the largest auction amount for a single category of scrap material in the DOD’s history.

Buyers of the asphalt included construction companies, recyclers and resellers. Three separate sales are currently being removed from Eielson Air Force Base, totaling 64.4 million pounds. The four prior sales occurred over the last two years, the company says.