Most of us are quite familiar with the everyday recycling activities of our newspaper, plastics, cardboard, and glass, but have you thought about recycling rubber? If you are hesitant to undertake such a task, there are many businesses that will pick up the recyclable item and continue the process on their site.
Rubber comes in two states, natural and synthetic. Natural rubber is extracted from rubber producing plants in the form of latex. Ninety of all natural rubber comes from the plants in Indonesia, the Malay Peninsula, and Sri Lanka. Synthetic rubber is produced in several methods very similar to plastics by a chemical process known as polymerization. These include butyl rubber, neoprene, and buna rubbers.
Rubber that the typical household can recycle will come in many shapes and sizes such as the tires from your vehicles, or bicycles, the inner tubes from your bicycles, the tires from your scooters, rubber flooring, rubber bands, rubber mulch, believe it or not, its a great product, rubber boots, rubber gloves, rubber gym mats, rubber gaskets, rubber hoses, rubber rafts, rubber stamps, rubber stoppers, rubber tiles, rubber sport balls, rubber washers, and rubber weights just to name a few.
There are many reasons to recycle industrial rubber including the fact that it generates work in developing countries, recovered rubber can cost half that of either natural or synthetic rubber, any useful products are derived from recycled or reused rubber products, and it is an excellent way to dispose of unwanted rubber products which is often difficult.
Industrial rubber can be reproduced into many everyday items.
Rubber manufacturers produce two types of rubber, natural and synthetic, both are environmentally friendly processes.
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