{"id":1182,"date":"2016-04-05T19:26:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T19:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T16:44:06","slug":"recycling-tires-where-the-rubber-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/recycling-tires-where-the-rubber-meets\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Tires: Where The Rubber Meets The Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/epawaste\/conserve\/materials\/tires\/faq.htm#ques2\">According<\/a> to the EPA, 290 million used tires are generated annually.\u00a0 Recycling tires keeps tires out of landfills and extends the life of rubber materials used to manufacture the tires. So how are they recycled?<\/p>\n<p>Well, \u2026worn out or damaged tires are removed from vehicles and stored in appropriate containers.\u00a0 Used tires are then picked up based on vendor service intervals and transported to recycling facilities.\u00a0 Scrap tires are then recycled as fuel pellets for example \u2013 an alternative source of energy for cement kilns to ignite furnaces.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/epawaste\/conserve\/materials\/tires\/faq.htm#ques2\">outlined<\/a> by the EPA, \u2018Tires produce the same amount of energy as oil and 25% more energy than coal. The oil equivalency of a passenger tire is 7 gallons and the heat content of shredded tires is 10 to 16% higher than that of coal. Tires have a high heating value\u2014each pound of scrap tire rubber is equivalent to 15,000 BTUs of energy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What about making new tires from recycled tires you ask?\u00a0 Rubber from scrap tires can be reused as low-volume filler in new tires.\u00a0 Generally, ground rubber constitutes a small percentage of newly manufactured tires.\u00a0 This is due to certain product quality control measures.\u00a0 This is certainly not to say that new tires with recycled content are any less safe than those without.\u00a0 Ground rubber can also be used as a modified asphalt, playground or sport surfacing or even rubber mulch for landscaping.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of auto recycling, our latest E-guide \u2018Are Hybrid Cars Inherently More Recyclable?\u201d explores the subject in greater detail.\u00a0 You can download the E-guide by clicking on the icon below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/3043716\/White%20Papers%20to%20Download\/RecyclingTireJourney-INFOGPH_vF3.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3894\" src=\"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/used-tire-recycling.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/used-tire-recycling.png 615w, https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/used-tire-recycling-262x300.png 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\">C<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the EPA, 290 million used tires are generated annually.\u00a0 Recycling tires keeps tires out of landfills and extends the life of rubber materials used to manufacture the tires. So how are they recycled? Well, \u2026worn out or damaged tires are removed from vehicles and stored in appropriate containers.\u00a0 Used tires are then picked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotive-solutions-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/questrmg.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}