Project made possible by Waste Tire Market Development Grant In partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) Waste Tire Market Development Program, Colorado National Speedway (CNS) is putting new rubberized technology to the test in the demanding Colorado climate on the state’s premier NASCAR track. “We tried to use recycled tire […]

Dropping old tires in marine waters to create habitat was a popular idea before the 1980s. Like other coastal areas around the country, Washington’s waters got their share of these tire bundles, the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) said in a recent post. The well-meaning placement of tire debris turned out to have unexpected consequences. […]

A ribbon cutting ceremony last month celebrated the opening of “Tires to Trails”,  a 2.9 mile walking and biking path inside T.O. Fuller State Park in Memphis, made with recycled tire rubber flexible porous pavement. The project was a partnership between the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC), Department of Transportation (TDOT), the City […]

If you don’t know Red Clark, the Oklahoma Asphalt Pavement Association (OAPA) wants you to meet him Red is the president of Asphalt Plus, LLC.  Asphalt Plus is a member of  OAPA, and they are providing dry process rubber (engineered crumb rubber or ECR)  to asphalt producers here in Oklahoma, OAPA President, Larry Patrick said. […]

A University of Technology Sydney (UTS) rail research project is using reclaimed and recycled rubber to absorb shock and increase the lifespan of granular construction material or ballast. The project led by Buddhima Indraratna director of the UTS’ Transport Research Centre uses recycled rubber in a variety of ways. To help prevent particle movement and […]

Ecore continues its mission to make people’s lives better through its most recent donation of 2,000 sq. ft. of upcycled performance flooring to Lancaster, Pa.-based Lionheart Training, a youth facility that provides physical conditioning and athletic training to inner-city children aged 6-12. “We are always looking for ways to promote active and healthy lifestyles in […]

Dynatex, an Austrian developer and manufacturer of functional materials, is offering high-quality fabrics made from recycled raw material derived from scrap tires. Through a new thermo-chemical process, pyrolysis oil is first extracted from shredded tires and used to produce a polyamide polymer. The raw material, which consists of post-consumer recyclate (PCR), is further processed into […]

Pennsylvania-based perkEpave is taking the benefits of recycled rubber porous surfaces to a growing number of public and private users Porous Flexible Paving, developed in Europe in the 1990s, migrated to the USA in the early 2000s. Slow growth marked the early years as companies sought to develop the market and found that there were […]