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To contact us:
Phone:
815-753-0352
Fax:
815-753-6290
3R Program Physical Plant Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115
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Tire Facts
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- One
of the most promising ways to recycle tires is by turning them into
ground rubber "crumbs" and adding them to asphalt for paving roads,
running tracks, runaways, and playgrounds. The result: pavement
life is increased by 4 to 5 years.
- If you are a commuter, consider
carpooling. It saves on overall wear and tear on your cars.
- Recycled rubber is also used in
boat bumpers, carpet padding, and wire and pipe instillation.
- In India, tires are cut up and used
to make durable and inexpensive shoes.
- A burning tire can leach 2 1/2 gallons
of waste oil into the ground, threatening the ground-water.
- Check your tire pressure!
If all tires in America were properly inflated, we could save two billion
gallons of gasoline.
- Americans discard 280 million tires
a year, 25 to 30 of which are re-treaded or otherwise reused.
- About eight out of every ten tires
in the U.S. wind up in landfills or "stockpiles." An estimated
2 to 3 billion tires are currently stockpiles in the United States.
- At one site near Modesto, California,
8 million tires were stockpiled as of 1991. By 1995, through recycling
efforts, that number was reduced to 2 million, although they receive
20,000 tires daily.
- Artificial reefs, breakwaters and
erosion control barriers made with whole tires can preserve precious
natural habitats.
- It takes half a barrel of crude
oil to produce the rubber in just 1 truck tire.
- A new trend in tire recycling has
been to made tunics from used bicycle inner tubes.
- When tires are ditched, they can
collect rainwater. This makes them the perfect breeding ground
for mosquitoes.
- In
Iowa, 80 of used tires go to making tire derived fuel (TDF). The
rest are made into products like door mats, crumb rubber, roofing, playground
material and asphalt.
- By
chipping tires and recovering the steel wire, up to 99 percent of the
average passenger car tire can now be captured for recycling.
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