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, ...

BOWIE, Md.—The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee has added a wealth of experience from the tire recycling realm to its ranks with the appointment of Richard "Dick" Gust, a former ...

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 ...

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 ...

STURGIS, Mich — Here in Michigan, we are known for helping put the world on wheels. And now we're doing our best to help recycle them. And it turns out we’re pretty good at it. Since 1993 the Michigan ...

(Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has achieved a major technological breakthrough by converting waste rubber tyres into super-light aerogels that ...

Cement manufacturers have strongly impressed upon the Ministry of Finance to waive off import duties on shredded rubber scrap to save a huge amount of $45 million annually in the country's import bill ...

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 ...