How to used a waste rubber?

Regenerated rubber is often popularly known as reclaim rubber in the tires and rubber industry. This is becoming more and more popular with the increase in natural rubber and synthetic rubber prices. Regenerated rubber is a product obtained from waste and worn out vulcanized scrap. Use of reclaim rubber is already established in automotive tires, butyl tube. Energy recovery is one of the important processes of tires reclaim. Tires (once the steel wire is removed) have a relatively high specific heat value, as compare to coal. Worldwide energy recovery makes up one of the largest uses of reclaim tires. Test suggests that the use of waste tires as a substitute for coal result in lower emissions of nitrogen and sulfur. There has been a significant amount of reclaim tires used in cement kilns.

The rubber industry worldwide has focused mainly on the disposal of waste rubber rather than recapturing the economic value of the resources incorporated in the waste, historically the uses for waste rubber have been of low economic value, resulting in a low volume of recycling and stockpiling of tires. Tires are consider as the most visible of waste rubber product and their accumulation is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide.

There is an enormous potential for reclaim and reuse of rubber in developing countries. Whether rubber tires are reused, reprocessed, or used for making article for human use, the end result is there is less waste and less degradation of these materials which could cause harmful effects in our environment.

In Asian countries there has been a culture to reuse and to recycle all materials. Other than making reclaim rubber, scrap tires parts have also been used in shoe soles, slippers and in washers. Worn out tread have been nicely stripped off and used on the wheel of bull carts. Sidewalls of a tires are stripped off and knitted nicely with steel wire to make mats, mattresses and flooring products. Worn out bladders have been used in making flower garden and so on.

There is tremendous potential for the application of rubber crumb (powder rubber) in the construction of road. Crumb rubber may be used as : Fill material , In asphalt(wet and dry), As a crack sealant and in repair membranes.