Thesis in its first part describes known technologies for reclaiming of asphalt mixtures. There are two methods that are described. First one is called cold recycled technology, which is used in situ while road destruction. The second one is about getting, preparing and using recycled asphalt aggregate in production of new asphalt mixtures. In the second part of the thesis are represented technologies for warm mix asphalt production, which can basically be created in two ways. The first one is by using the fact that the hot binder expands and foams when water is added and the second one uses chemicals to change chemical structure of the binder. In any way is the goal to reduce bitumen viscosity without increasing binder temperature. The final part is about representing statistics of using above mentioned technologies in Slovenia, Europe and around the world. In the last part there is also analysed the economic viability of producing warm mix asphalt with Sasobit and viability of using technology of cold recycling instead of classic reconstruction.
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