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from the where-the-rubber-meets-the-road dept.
Energy News reports that a company based in the Republic of Georgia has invented a new process for recycling rubber tires into new treads. G3C Technologies' new process:
...takes scrap tires and chemically/industrially breaks them down to produce a material known as recovered black carbon[sic] (rCB). This renewed material can then be used to make brand new tires or other products typically requiring 'virgin' carbon black, such as plastic auto parts, paints, and semi-conductive parts– epitomizing the concept of circular economy and metaphorically turning the need for a 'virgin birth' of new carbon black into one of reincarnation.
Currently 46 per cent of end of life tires are disposed of through incineration, and 15% end up in landfills. As well as reducing this number, G3C's process can dramatically reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. "Production of 1 kg of virgin carbon black produces 2.4 kg of CO2 emissions, while the creation of rCB emits just 20 to 30 per cent of that total, minimizing the carbon footprint of new tire production."
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday November 20 2018, @07:37PM
That run on magic or at least clean electric or hydrogen. Then again, maybe Fallout had it right and we should have been using nuclear powered everything. Everything we do will "produce pollution" of some sort or another. Anything as ubiquitous as tires will have a profound impact on our ecosystem. How about books, drywall, windows, paint, light fixtures, LEDs, pens, pencils, water bottles, carpet, plastic sheathing on wires, etc. Then there's this nice one: http://time.com/5200680/microplastic-water-bottle-orb-study/ [time.com] Do you drink bottled water? Guess what, you're getting a healthy / unhealthy dose of microplastics in your water.
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