Last drop squeezed from recycled tires

Borrowing from technology used to prepare cotton for ginning, scientists have developed a machine that enables a much larger fraction of discarded tiles to be recycled into useful products.

Further Readings:

For more information on scrap tires and tire recycling, see the Web site of the Tire and Rubber Recycling Advisory Council of the International Tire and Rubber Association (ITRA) at http://www.itra.com/corporate/recycling/trrac.htm.

Sources:

W. Stanley Anthony
U.S. Cotton Ginning Laboratory
111 Experimental Station Road
P.O. Box 256
Stoneville, MS 38776

Max Daughtrey
Four D Corporation
900 McCurdy Road
P.O. Box 1067
Duncan, OK 73533

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 18, May 1, 1999, p. 276. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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