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, ...

It's reckoned that most of the 22 million tons of rubber that is processed every year worldwide goes into making vehicle tires and that once rubber products reach the end of their useful lives, for ...

Cautious optimism was the tenor following the Oct. 24 release of the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association's 2023 Scrap Tire Report, but things are not always what they seem. The biennial publication ...

Many approaches have been tried, but tire-derived fuel remains the largest single market for scrap tires in the U.S. TDF accounts for more than half of the 299 million scrap tires disposed across the ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perpetual Rubber announced this week an initiative to acquire a record amount of rubber this year through new and existing reclamation partnerships. “We are experiencing an ...

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is distributing more than $2 million in grants to six road-surfacing projects to help cover costs for developing ...

The decline in scrap rubber prices has dealt a blow to rubber farmers who have recently shifted to scrap rubber production as a cost-effective alternative. While the prices of ribbed smoked sheet (RSS ...