Tires - Is there Life After the Road?

In a study released recently, researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario say they have found a method that could reduce the environmental and safety hazards related to stockpiled tires. Michael Brook, the study's lead author and a professor in the department of chemistry and chemical biology at McMaster says, "A tire is incredibly well made. We want to turn that tire back into something else, either make a new tire or make a new material, even if it's not quite as high quality, but not just go from my car to a landfill, which is mostly what's happening now." Brook and some of his students have found a way to dissolve the rubber used in car tires, which they say could eventually help keep what is typically a single-use item out of landfills.

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Tires - Is there Life After the Road? is an episode from EarthMatters by Lawson Hunter.

This episode is 25:26 long.

This episode was published on Feb 3, 2020.

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