Washington’s Richland City Council has approved a service agreement with Liberty Tire Recycling LLC to clean up the largest waste tire pile in the state, spread over a roughly five-acre property with about 280,000 cubic feet of tires. In 2005, Northwest Tire Recycling set up operations on the site to bale tires and compress them […]

City officials placed rubber medians in some of their most notorious hotspots for street takeovers to hinder future sideshows Following a surge in illegal street takeovers across Southern California—including an incident this summer in South Los Angeles that escalated into the looting of a grocery store—the city of Compton has launched a new physical strategy […]

Microplastics have emerged as an important environmental conversation. Synthetic turf fields, which use recycled rubber crumb infill, have become part of that conversation, and the concerns raised deserve to be taken seriously. The amount of infill material that leaves a typical synthetic turf field has historically been small. Most of what leaves is carried away […]

Sometimes, when a road fails or is facing failure, challenges can quickly mount beyond traditional paving solutions throwing it into an emergency situation. This is especially critical on heavily trafficked, major thoroughfares. That was the situation the City of Fort Collins, Colorado faced three years ago when significant load-related distress was appearing in the surface […]

Continental has developed a new passenger car tire engineered with roughly 43 per cent recycled content, highlighting the practical potential of circular raw materials in high-performance electric vehicle (EV) applications. Produced as part of the European Union’s ZEvRA (Zero Emission Electric Vehicles Enabled by Harmonised Circularity) initiative, the concept demonstrates how advanced material recovery technologies […]

RubberForm® traffic calming products meet safety and sustainability goals at Amazon facilities With tens of thousands of employees and delivery drivers operating in fast-paced distribution and fulfillment centers, Amazon faced an ongoing challenge: how to manage vehicle and pedestrian traffic flow to reduce the risk of workplace accidents. High-volume, mixed-use traffic zones—where employee vehicles, delivery […]

  Taos, New Mexico- based Earthship Biotecture has announced the construction of the first tornado and fire-resistant Earthship starting this fall. The Earthship will be a private residence and will be built just outside of Lawrence, Kansas. The residence is part of the Earthship movement founded by architect Michael Reynolds that uses recycled and natural […]

As part of USTMA’s Full Circle platform and America 250 Second Life Stories initiative, these stories highlight the people helping build sustainable end-use markets for recycled tires while solving real infrastructure challenges in their communities   CALIFORNIA Champions and challenges are raising awareness of the proven engineering, economic and environmental value of tire derived materials […]