Globally, the industry produces over 1.6 billion tires annually and consumers retire around 1 billion waste tires. Current ...

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers introduce a sulfur diimide reagent that enables the installation ...

Every year, millions of tyres end up in landfills, in 2021, over 274 million tyres were discarded in the United States, and ...

A study has now pioneered a technique for breaking down this rubber waste and transforming it into valuable precursors for epoxy resins. This technique offers an innovative and sustainable ...

Chewing gum waste is a significant ... in the environment. For example, researchers are looking at using natural resins and waxes as alternatives to synthetic rubber. These biodegradable gums ...

Neither approach provides an efficient, scalable solution for repurposing rubber waste. "Our research seeks to overcome these challenges by developing a method that breaks down rubber into ...