REVIEWS OF RECENT RUBBER RECYCLING LITERATURE, WORLDWIDE

Considerable interest has grown in recycling, reprocessing or reclaiming scrap tires and factory waste in order to recover the hydrocarbon resources in rubber. With an estimated 500 million tires discarded annually in Western industrialized nations alone, and only 15% of auto tires and 49% of truck tires being retreaded at least once, any other recycling is far preferable to landfill dumping. Another growing trend is the realization that factory production scrap amounts to a sizeable waste of virgin rubber compounds, spurring a search for techniques to recycle the scrap--preferably directly back into the production process. With these considerations in mind, this article reviews some ideas culled from recent foreign publications, in two categories--Methods and Applications.

• Corporate Authors:

  Communication Channels, Incorporated

  6151 Powers Ferry Road, N.W.
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30339-2941
• Publication Date: 1983-5

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 5 p.
• Serial:
  • Elastomerics
  • Volume: 115
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Communication Channels, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Applications; Methodology; Recycling; Rubber; Scrap; Tires
• Subject Areas: Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00380033
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-035 199
• Files: HSL, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 30 1983 12:00AM