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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy is providing funds to organize waste tire drop-off events in over 60 communities across the state that would take place both in urban and rural areas. These events are expected to help locals recycle their scrap tires in an affordable and easy way. It will be possible to create tire collection sites operating for a year and roadside pickups.

More than $18,000 will be allocated by the US company Lift-A-Loft Corp. to conduct environmental probe of the old CR3 tire recycling site that had endured a long-lasting tire fire in August 2003. The Delaware-based company will have to provide the funds for the area’s testing after it signed a deal with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management which initially urged Lift-A-Loft Corp to pay a fine of more than $23,000 after the corporation allegedly violated waste control laws at its plant two year ago. The deal also forces the corporation to pay to the state the remaining part of the fine estimated at $4,680.

The Department of Veterinary Studies of the University of Perugia in association with the Italian Ecopneus and Unione Italiani Sport Per Tutti (UISP) conducted a research in which they found that horse-riding surface that contains recycled rubber can serve as outstanding an material if one wants to train and relax using it.

When we talk about products derived from tire recycling, we often imply crumb rubber or fine rubber powder. The former is the most common material, while the latter – one of the most expensive products of tire recycling. Yet there is another alternative, cheaper in value, but having promising market opportunities – tire-derived rubber mulch. Rubber mulch from scrap tires is produced in the initial stages of recycling process when input material is shredded several times and separated from steel wires. This yields a thin product of homogenous size, approximately 50 mm long which can be vastly used in landscaping. Below, we describe several ways of how tire-derived rubber mulch can be used.

Tire recycling businesses focused on rubber mulch, crumb rubber and rubber powder production now have a chance to make their operations even more green and sustainable. Indeed, production chain of every tire recycling business includes packaging – so called “big bags” made of polypropylene (PP). While recyclers help clean up hazardous tire stockpiles and reuse thousands tons of high-quality rubber in industrial applications, why shouldn’t they deliver their recycled goods using recycled packaging? This article describes recent breakthroughs in designing high-quality sustainable packaging – big bags – made by an Austrian company KSM Solutions.