Environmental Concerns of Tire Production by Lisa Benfield https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod History of tire production and how we've gotten to this point. en-us 2018-11-08 00:04:42 UTC 2025-10-16 16:38:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Hotsun.png How Are Tires Made? benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/301849368 Watch the video to see how they are Blended, Milled, Built and Cured.]]> 2018-11-08 00:25:38 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/301849368 References benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/301851201 Rathje, W. L., & Zimring, C. A. (2012). Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste : The Social Science of Garbage. Thousand Oaks, Calif: SAGE Publications, Inc. Retrieved from http://libproxy.gmercyu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=474267&site=ehost-live

Learn How Tires are Made. (n.d.). Retrieved November 7, 2018, from https://www.goodyear.com.ph/learn/how-tires-are-made

How Its Made Car Tires. (2015, March 09). Retrieved November 7, 2018, from https://youtu.be/1o9mVZxoayA

Daniel Nelson. (1987). Mass Production and the U.S. Tire Industry. The Journal of Economic History, (2), 329. Retrieved from http://libproxy.gmercyu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.2122232&site=eds-live

Tire Construction. (n.d.). Retrieved November 9, 2018, from https://www.tiresafety.com/en_us/tires-101/tire-design/tire-construction

Four key factors shaping the tire materials market to 2021. (n.d.). Retrieved November 9, 2018, from https://www.smithersrapra.com/resources/2016/march/four-key-factors-shaping-the-tyre-materials-market

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Ślusarczyk, B. jagoda@zim. pcz. p., Baryń, M., & Kot, S. (2016). Tire Industry Products as an Alternative Fuel. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 25(3), 1263–1270. https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/61543

KEITH SCHNEIDER, Special to The New York Times. (1990, March 02). Worst Tire Inferno Has Put Focus on Disposal Problem. Retrieved November 9, 2018, from https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/02/us/worst-tire-inferno-has-put-focus-on-disposal-problem.html

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]]> 2018-11-08 00:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/301851201 What Materials Are Used In Tire Production? benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302567850 Rubber is the main material used. Some tires are composed of as many as 200 different raw materials. Materials are listed below:

NATURAL RUBBER
SYNTHETIC POLYMERS
*Butadiene rubber
*Styrene butadiene rubber. 
*Halogenated polyisobutylene rubber commonly known as Halobutyl rubber. 
STEEL
TEXTILE
FILLERS (CARBON BLACK, AMORPHOUS PRECIPITATED SILICA)
ANTIOXIDANTS 
ANTIOZONANTS
CURING SYSTEMS (SULFUR, ZINC OXIDE)
]]> 2018-11-09 14:22:41 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302567850 % of Raw Material Used benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302589870 2018-11-09 14:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302589870 The process? benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302603262 Tire Manufacturing process is a long process which includes a number of hazardous operations. It involves lots of chemicals that are toxic to the human body

Pneumatic Tire Manufacturing process includes lots of human interacting hazardous operations like tire building, green tire painting and curing. ]]> 2018-11-09 15:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302603262 Tire Waste Disposal or Lack There Of benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302615089 "Tire degradation process takes tens of years, and their storage is associated with a risk of fire and the release of many hazardous substances into the atmosphere"  Finding ways to recycle these substances is critical for our environment.

Used tires are accumulating in mass quantities in our land fills, in deserted run down areas and are not being recycled appropriately.  

"The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that two billion to three billion used tires are in thousands of dumps around country and that the pile grows by 280 million tires a year. Although rubber and energy companies are trying to develop new ways to use old tires, fewer than 5 percent are recycled."

"The agency said at least 87 significant tire fires occurred in the United States last year, double the number in 1987. In almost every case, fires were deliberately set, took days or weeks to extinguish, caused extensive pollution of air and streams, and resulted in evacuations and injuries to firefighters."

]]> 2018-11-09 15:36:17 UTC https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302615089 Goal Setting For Our Future benfield_l https://padlet.com/benfield_l/1vpabg9r1xod/wish/302682262 Offer recycling incentives for tire companies to recycle their goods.
Find ways to re-use items in tires, for energy.

"Tires are one of the coolest products to recycle because they can be turned into such a wide variety of products. Your flat tire could end up burned off as fuel, turned into playground equipment or even used to make artificial turf"

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