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UK scientists might have found the end of tire fires - recycling vulcanized rubber

There are thousands of landfill sites around the world filled with hundreds of millions of tires. Unfortunately used tires have been notoriously hard to recycle until now. They have been ground up and used as an aggregate in road surfaces or for flooring but sixty-five percent of annual rubber production is used to make new tires. The vulcanizing process chemically changes the rubber and makes it unsuitable to reuse in new tires. British researchers may have found a way to make the previously vulcanized rubber adhere to new rubber so that it ... Read more →

Artificial underwater reefs made from used tires: a complete failure! Jeremy Korzeniewski

It is no secret that the world has a problem with too many used automotive tires. There have been many good uses for them, and even more ideas are currently being thought up. But, unfortunately, ...

UK scientists might have found the end of tire fires - recycling vulcanized rubber 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

There are thousands of landfill sites around the world filled with hundreds of millions of tires. Unfortunately used tires have been notoriously hard to recycle until now. They have been ground up and used as an aggregate in road surfaces or for flooring but sixty-five percent of annual rubber ...

Artificial underwater reefs made from used tires: a complete failure! 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It is no secret that the world has a problem with too many used automotive tires. There have been many good uses for them, and even more ideas are currently being thought up. But, unfortunately, there have been some stinkers, too. For instance, using tires as artificial underwater reefs for marine ...


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