With the rise of urban centers across the country, stormwater drainage continues to challenge public works departments, city planners and project developers In heavy and severe storm events the Eleta Street entertainment district in Tampa, Florida consistently floods due to the lack of drainage capabilities at the curb side of the street. The bustling urban […]

Canadian tire recycling firm expects to create 200 jobs at a new U.S. recycled rubber products manufacturing plant Eco-Flex – a pioneer in recycling and repurposing tire derived crumb rubber into an extensive line of commercial, residential, agricultural and industrial recycled rubber products, breaks ground on a 25,000-square-foot manufacturing, distribution, and sales center in Lampasas, […]

The 2019 Annual Report for the Canadian Association of Tire Recycling Agencies (CATRA) provides a snapshot of Canada’s tire recycling industry in 2019 and showcases strategic initiatives that define Canada’s tire recycling industry. The report features significant achievements of member agencies in 2019 and cumulatively since the inception of their programs. CATRA consists of recycling […]

Investments in infrastructure and team keep pace with growth Bolder Industries has been on a growth curve for the last eighteen months, Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, the recovered carbon black and petrochemical extraction pioneer, has seen uptime, quality, consistency, operating costs and sales of all products rise to commercial scale. Its signature BolderBlack® recovered carbon […]

Street improvement project will use recycled rubber porous pavement for reducing stormwater runoff A project underway in Pentagon City, Virginia will re-build Army Navy Drive within the existing right-of-way as a multimodal complete street featuring enhanced bicycle, transit, environmental and pedestrian facilities. The goal of the project is to improve the local connections between the […]

In the U.S. and globally, tire recyclers agree that no matter what end product they produce, having markets for their tire derived material is their top priority and biggest challenge. Oscar Filen knows this well. Filen, CEO of South Africa-based Xtyre has been working with recycled rubber for the past 32 years. He’s grown his […]

A worn tire is far from worn out Tire shops are typically busy in Spring, swapping out winter tires and replacing worn-out tires before the roads become slick with rain. When a customer leaves a worn tire behind at the shop, its usefulness has just begun. Millions of tires each year get shredded into pieces […]

Michelin is collaborating with Scandinavian Environ Systems (Enviro) to increase end-of-life tire recycling using Enviro’s pyrolysis process which converts scrap tires to new raw materials. Enviro has developed a processing method that modifies the chemical composition and physical properties of the tires during the pyrolysis process and extracts recovered carbon black, pyrolysis oil, steel or […]