Each year about 300 million tire scrap tires are produced in North America. During the average life of a tire, only 15% of the rubber is used, leaving a staggering 9 billion pounds of scrap tires.
Since there are few uses for scrap tires, we burn over 5 billion pounds of them for their fuel value. Besides posing environmental air quality hazards, burning only recovers about 25% of the energy that went into making these tires.
But now, with our patented green process, scrap tires can be reformed into a new, versatile, high quality rubber material - Tyromer.
Tyromer means:
- Reduced consumption of synthetic rubber – a non-renewable petroleum-based resource
- Reduced air pollution - more than half of all scrap tires are burned for their fuel value.
- Reduced the amount of Greenhouse Gas generated in tire manufacturing
- Reduced environmental hazards associated with scrap tire stockpiles
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