Rubber tires are built to last, but that durability makes them a nightmare to recycle. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) have developed a mild, ...

KIYOSU, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. (TOKYO:7282) is doubling its rubber recycling capacity at the Morimachi Plant in central Japan to accelerate the recycling of rubber used in ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.—Between devulcanization, rubberized asphalt and fine-mesh rubber powders, rubber recycling was a prominent theme at the 29th annual Clemson University Tire Industry Conference ...

In this webinar you will learn how to improve mechanical properties and increase recycled content of rubber parts. Today recycled rubber is used in in many applications; however use of recycled rubber ...

Tire recyclers hope road contractors will compete with tire-derived fuel consumers to heat up the scrap tire market. Many tire recycling advocates want the road beneath your car’s tires to be made of ...

Scrap rubber has remained little more than, well, scrap -- until now. University of Akron researcher Dr. Avraam Isayev developed an innovative rubber recovery technology expected to cause a major ...

WASHINGTON—In the grand scheme of things, paper recycling is relatively easy once all the different grades are separated. As is metal recycling—ferrous from non-ferrous and go from there. Plastic ...

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, ...

Used tyres pose a major environmental risk around the world, with more than one billion tyres disposed of every year. Most of these tyres end up in landfill. Estimates suggest more than 20 million ...

There’s a lot of news about millions of job vacancies around the U.S. But for U.S. Rubber Recycling, that’s not an issue. The Colton, Calif.-based company, which diverts worn tires from landfills and ...