| Almost any tire can be recycled, including | | | | rubber. |
| passenger vehicle tires (cars, motorbikes, buses | | | | To make tire mulch the rubber from tires needs |
| and even airplanes) and commercial trucks and | | | | to be made into a granular substance, with all the |
| trailers. So you can imagine that the amount of | | | | steel and other fiber removed. The whole process |
| these tires that cannot be reused because they | | | | is called devulcanization. The tires need to be |
| are too worn down, or suffered irreparable | | | | shredded, and then they are passed through the |
| damage is phenomenal. | | | | devulcanization process, which means the rubber |
| First of all the rubber recycling process involves | | | | does not lose its desirable properties of elasticity |
| the collection of these discarded tires. Tires left | | | | and insulation - essential elements of tire mulch |
| on landfill sites or burn harm the environment, so | | | | used for playground surfaces, landscapes and |
| a much better way is to recycle this abundance | | | | equine surfacing. |
| of rubber. A whole host of new markets have | | | | The rubber has to be treated with heat, |
| opened up recently to make good use of this | | | | chemicals and softening agents to keep these |
| rubber, one being the tire mulch industry. | | | | elasticity and insulation properties, so that the tire |
| Recycling rubber tires not only helps the | | | | mulch can be used for its intended purposes. It |
| environment, but the economy too, as people | | | | takes time and expertise to get this process just |
| need to be employed for the recycling process of | | | | right. |