Rubber Recycling Articles

Tire recycling is a serious global concern. Scrap tires take up far too much space, they can spawn devastating tire fires that burn for weeks or even months when stored together in large numbers, and they they leach chemicals into soil and groundwater. Recycling is an absolute necessity, but not easily done. Most developed countries have produced millions of scrap tires (at the very least), and ...

May 30, 2017

By ECO Green Equipment

For many reasons, whole tires pose a major problem to landfills. The most obvious is the inefficient use of space. The actual rubber of a tire takes up only a small fraction of the space a tire occupies, and the rest of the space is wasted. A less obvious but far more serious problem is that tires may trap methane gasses when buried with other garbage in landfills. When this happens, the tires ...

May 20, 2017

By ECO Green Equipment

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Apr. 21, 2017

By ECO Green Equipment

Recycled waste material could play a major role in the construction of roads in Europe, bringing both environmental and economic benefits. A new study proposes a scenario where 50% of the asphalt for Europe's roads consists of recycled materials, leading to significant reductions in costs, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Waste Framework Directive, there is a ...

Mar. 23, 2017

By European Commission

From cars and trucks to planes, tractors, and forklifts, tires are used for a wide variety of vehicles. And those tires don’t last forever. Regardless of how many miles a tire travels, it should not be used longer than ten years past its manufacture date, as the rubber will grow brittle and can crack. This isn’t usually a problem, though, since most tires are replaced within three or ...

Feb. 9, 2017

By ECO Green Equipment

Zika is a dangerous disease threatening millions of people today in southern hemisphere. It is spread mostly by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito (Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus). These mosquitoes bite during the day and night. Once you get bitten it is too late to do much but what is important is to prevent this mosquito from breeding. Mosquitos typically lay eggs near water because ...

Nov. 16, 2016

By Tana Oy

Conventional aerated tank technology is widely applied for post treatment of natural rubber processing wastewater in Southeast Asia; however, a long hydraulic retention time (HRT) is required and the effluent standards are exceeded. In this study, a downflow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor was installed as post treatment of anaerobic tank effluent in a natural rubber factory in South Vietnam and ...

Oct. 15, 2016

By IWA Publishing

In this study, granular sludge formation was carried out using an aluminum chloride supplement in an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating natural rubber processing wastewater. Results show that during the first 75 days after the start-up of the UASB reactor with an organic loading rate (OLR) of 2.65 kg-COD·m−3·day−1, it performed stably with a removal of 90% of the ...

May 18, 2016

By IWA Publishing

State Rubber & Environmental Solutions upgrades its processing equipment to produce recycled rubber that is suitable for rubberized asphalt. Quality counts, particularly in rubberized asphalt applications that use recycled rubber. The ability to provide a fine, high-quality terminal blend material opens the door to marketing to a range of highway engineers who require something ...

Mar. 1, 2016

By Granutech-Saturn Systems

A pilot-scale experiment of natural rubber processing wastewater treatment was conducted using a combination system consisting of a two-stage up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) and a down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor for more than 10 months. The system achieved a chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency of 95.7% ± 1.3% at an organic loading rate of 0.8 kgCOD/(m3.d). Bacterial ...

Jan. 18, 2016

By IWA Publishing

AVA supplies horizontal batch mixing reactors as core production plant components for the manufacture of insulation boards and insulating materials made from rubber and cork granules. In addition to the excellent moistening of the rubber and cork granules with the binding agent, a particular feature is the complete emptying and good cleaning characteristics of the machine. For this purpose, AVA ...

Nov. 26, 2015

By AVA GmbH u. Co. KG

Together with Gummiimpex/GRP we have started in 2007 the company GripEco D.O.O. in Bartolovecki Croatia for the production of rubber playground tiles. After one year the customer took over the Granuband shares and produced the rubber products nowadays by it selves. Same as with the tire recycling line, we have shared here our knowledge with Gummiipex in the production of products of recycled ...

Mar. 20, 2015

By Granuband Knowledge Center

In 2006 Granuband Knowledge Center designed and invented the exclusive CWS (Clean Wire System). This has been specifically designed to purify the steel wires extracted from a tire granulation line. Do you have dirty steel tire wire with low value ? We can provide you for the solution to make it clean and profitable! We have designed the Clean Wire System ( CWS) to ...

Mar. 20, 2015

By Granuband Knowledge Center

The Xishuangbanna (SW China) landscape has changed dramatically during the past three decades due to the conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantations. This study characterized the influence of conversion of tropical rainforest to rubber plantation on potential splash erosion rate and actual splash erosion rate. The average potential splash erosion rate was 2.1 times higher in the ...

Jan. 29, 2015

By IWA Publishing

Recycling tyres is one of the fastest-growing business opportunities around the world. The EU, along with other countries around the world and many states in the US have banned tyres from landfills. This means that more and more tyres are being recycled for raw material for new applications, such as ground rubber mulch for playgrounds or rubberised asphalt, or are burned as tyre-derived fuel ...

Jan. 28, 2015

By Tana Oy

Tire recycling has become a global solution for civil engineering applications...from land, bridges, to roadways, rubber it now being used for a variety of projects.  Learn more about how rubber is becoming a answer for some of the most demanding civil engineering efforts. Some of the types of shreds and tire recycling that engineers require are: Tire shreds have properties that engineers ...

Dec. 30, 2014

By ECO Green Equipment

Playground safety standards currently in effect are not really safe. When one considers the current threshold where it is likely a child would suffer Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or death is 390 HIC for ages 1-3, 570 HIC for ages 4-5, and 700 HIC for ages 6 through adult, and the current industry standard says up to 1000 HIC is safe.  This is taking into account the current March 2000 data ...

Sep. 9, 2014

By US Rubber Mulch LLC

When State Rubber & Environmental Solutions started shredding tires about a decade ago, the company had optimistic plans for growth and volume. In the decade since then, its actual output is nearly doubled the company's initial projections. Vice President Jerry Woosley credits State Rubber's growth to its "machinery tweaking" and knowledge of how to squeeze the most from its equipment. ...

Jul. 1, 2014

By Granutech-Saturn Systems

According to the Recycled Times, over 300 millions used truck and car tires are accumulated every year. At least 25% of those tires are being put into landfills, which means that every year in the U.S., 75 million tires are taking up space in a landfill when they could be reused for something better. To put this information into perspective, for every three people in the United States, there is ...

Oct. 23, 2013

By ECO Green Equipment

There is no end for uses when it comes to recycled tires. Manufacturers who specialize in green products are coming up with new uses all the time. One such product that is growing in popularity as environmental awareness increases is housing shingles made from recycled tires. These shingles are cost effective, durable and great for the environment. Cost-Effective Rubber roofing is a ...

Oct. 16, 2013

By ECO Green Equipment