Disposing of old tires properly can be tricky. Fortunately, you may be able to drop them off at your local tire shop for ...

Rubber is a difficult material to recycle. Each year millions of pounds of industrial scrap and over 250 million scrap tires are disposed of in North America. Rubber, being a thermoset material, ...

According to the Washington-based Recycled Rubber Coalition (RRC), which operates with support from the Recycled Materials Association (ReMA), most end-of-life tires were dumped in landfills or ...

Much of North America is built around car-centric infrastructure, but the tires we use to navigate that web of roads and highways won't last forever. Tire rubber ages due to service, storage ...

ATLANTA—With about 944 million illegal tires left to clean up and another 56 million left to recycle, there is no resting on past accomplishments for the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association and the ...

How can improved methods for recycling tires help the environment? This is what a recent study published in Chem hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated novel chemical recycling ...

The recycling of waste tyres through the production of ground tire rubber (GTR) composites presents an effective strategy to address the escalating environmental concerns associated with post‐consumer ...

What is the best use of a used tire? Make tires out of it, of course. Remember the crumb rubber PPC experiment by the Garage 54 team from Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia, a few weeks ago? They took the ...

SCHKOPAU, Germany — Polish synthetic rubber producer Synthos S.A. and Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. have agreed to collaborate on the development, testing and evaluation of recycled rubber and its ...