Just a little brief on what happens to recycled tires and what they can be used for. Tire Recycling can help out in lots of different areas. Such as floor mats, adhesives, shoe soles and a whole lot more.

An additional 270 million tires become scrap tires every year. Illegal or improper dumping and stockpiling of scrap tires pose serious health and environmental risks.

Tire piles provide a breeding ground for rodents and mosquitoes, and are susceptible to fire from arson, lightning, and even spontaneous combustion. Tire pile fires are extremely polluting and difficult to extinguish.

Nearly 15 million scrap tires per year are chopped, ground, or powdered for use in wide variety of products such as floor mats, adhesives, gaskets, shoe soles, and electrical insulators, or blended into asphalt for use in pavement binders and sealants, or as an aggregate substitute.

Rubber modified asphalt (RMA) is reported to increase the durability and life of asphalt, but costs about twice as much as regular asphalt.

Studies on the performance, health and safety effects, air emissions, and recyclability, and the development of mixing standards for RMA are underway. Positive results of these efforts are likely to increase the use of RMA.

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