Authorities from Calhoun County, South Carolina have to clean up a big mess, as a giant pile of used tires forming a 50-acre illegal open dump is threatening the environment. Apparently, the tires belong to George Fontella Brown, a 39-year-old who tried to obtain a decent profit by selling them to China. After he r... |
23 November 2011
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Thanks to research conducted by experts at the Ohio State University, drivers around the world may drive cars outfitted with tires made partly out of tree fibers in a few years. The “active ingredient” in the new materials is microcrystalline cellulose, a compound that can easily be extracted from plant f... |
22 July 2009
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A company called PMGI/Productive Recycling recently announced that it had devised a new method of disposing of discarded tires from the automotive industry. Roughly 300 million used tires are generated in the United States alone every year, and they amount to one of the most hard to solve problems the country is face... |
12 January 2009
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Remember all those "James Bond" movies, in which the super-agent just pressed a button and his super-car did all sorts of crazy things (shoot rockets, deploy traps, eject enemies from the front seat etc.)? Well it seems that soon you'll be able to feel just like 007, since a company called Q Tires has developed ... |
14 March 2007
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