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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CBS) -- Have you ever picked up rubber bands left behind by a postal carrier? One Chicago woman has done a lot of that, and says it's a waste. Ella Peach says she has been picking up hundreds of ...