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Rita Heck from the Green Connection show speaks with Alan Petlin about sustainable fllooring, wool. This clip was for San Antonio Public Access TV.
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Recycling is referred to as the operation of re-using waste materials or used products, and turning them into new products. The ordinarily-recycled materials include plastic, glass, metal, textiles, and different electronic components. Nevertheless, would it be possible to recycle old or used car tires? Here’s a peek at the right means of recycling old motorcar tires.

Used Car Tires Was Once A Recycling Nightmare

Years ago, the majority of people changed their old tires, and just put the used ones into a road side ditch or abandoned parking area. Some time past, old tires were considered a recycling nightmare, because there were no available choices for recovering or re-using them.

Although there were a couple of businesses that were prepared to take your old tires, these were simply burned in an open pit. The burning of tires still is environmentally-unsafe, because cadmium, lead, arsenic, mercury, chromium and various toxic substances are let go in to the air when these are burned. The burning of car tires also leads to a host of cardiac and respiratory problems for those who inhale the fumes.

How Used Car Tires Are Recycled Today

With the coming of higher technology, old tires are now able to safely be disposed and recycled. It’s estimated that around 1.3 billion tires are traded yearly worldwide. While before only ten percent of discarded tires were actually recycled today more than eighty percent of used tires today now make their distance to a recycling facility.

Many different applications have right now been produced for recycling and re-using used car components and materials. It’s estimated that 1 in 4 of the used tires today are re-treaded, and recovered in another motorized vehicle a different place. Many of the used tires today are likewise mixed up, chopped, and used as a base for gravel roads, and as a sand and gravel exchange in road construction pursuits. Some used tires are likewise chopped up and mixed as an area of the surface for indoor tennis courts or indoor sports playing fields.

Pyrolisis- A New Method For Recycling Used Tires

While the improper disposal or burning of used car tires has not yet completely disappeared, the disposal and recycling of these items has improved. A new process called pyrolisis, is an eco-friendly method that uses a special mechanism for heating old tires, in a closed and oxygen-free environment. Recently, an electro-magnetic pyrolisis process was also introduced, which assists churn out metal, gas, carbon and man-made oil by-products. Through pyrolisis, a recycled automobile tire now is able to yield one kilogram of steel, four kilograms of carbon, four liters of oil, and 850 liters of reusable combustible gas.

Used vehicle tires can now be recycled in lot of ways. In some areas, steel mills use old tires as a carbon source, effectively exchanging coal and various sources for powering their machines. Used tires are now also used as barriers for rainwater runoff control, erosion control, road collision barriers, and wave-action barriers which safeguard ports and coastal areas.

 

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Ok, so the Bamboo PC was just an eco promotion. The laptop version of the bamboo PC launched last March at a computer fair in Hanover. It featured a laminated bamboo casing which was around a standard laptop, meaning that no less plastic was needed in making it.

Despite not having any major eco benefits to the bamboo computers, they did give a good demonstration of what can be done with a material that versatile.

Bamboo must be the only plant on the planet that is a source of food, works as building materials and woven fabrics. Even one of Edison’s original light bulbs had a bamboo filament. Due to bamboo being so strong and cheap, it has become a widely used product for scaffolding in parts of Asia. Fibres from bamboo poles are extremely strong, it both tension and compression terms. Its compressive strength is roughly twice that of concrete and bamboo has roughly the same tensile strength to weight ratio as steel. Now there’s even a bamboo laptop!

Products made of bamboo ticks most boxes for anyone buying green home furnishings. For a start, bamboo is an extremely sustainable material. There are a number of bamboo species that are able to grow over a metre each day. The locals that live near this amazing species of bamboo can cut down as much as they want and still have the same sized fores t at the end of the year as they had at the beginning. As for the global warming problem, because bamboo is a plant, all products made out of the sustainable material contains a large amount of atmospheric carbon. The plastic equivalent of a bamboo product is worse for the environment as it actually adds to the levels of carbon in the atmosphere!

Another point; due to bamboo being a natural material, it has a number of variations in quality, size and appearance, all of these differences make it difficult to work with as part of a mass production line. What this means is that you can be almost positive that a skilled craftsman has built the bamboo product you buy. If you choose to buy from a reputable source, you’ll also have the peace of mind that the craftsman has earned a fair wage from their work and not been exploited. Finally, you’ll know that your product won’t have accumulated any air miles during its journey to your home.

With eco credentials this strong, it’s a surprise bamboo built products are so beautiful. Just picture a hand crafted bamboo box, layered 15 times with natural shellac. All natural and really stylish. In the last few days, I picked up a beautifully hand-crafted bamboo knife block and now I’m considering buying more bamboo kitchen accessories like salad bowls. Stylish and ethical. Win.

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