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At some stage tyres become unusable just like cars. It’s part of the great circle of life, and one that should be embraced, rather than feared. Of course this is easy to do, as there is nothing scary about tyres being disposed of.
But of course, this leads me to an important question, and not coincidentally the topic of this article: How are tyres disposed of? When you take your old car to the car wreckers in Wellington, or the car wreckers in any other city, what kind of processes do the old tyres go through so that they don’t end up in big piles of tyres taking up valuable space?
The metal rims on the tyres are never forgotten, and are removed and either refurbished or turned into valuable scrap metal. The rest of the tyre, though? If not being retreaded and resold, it has to move on to the third “re”, recycling.
Recycling opens up a whole new universe of possibilities for the rubber that the tyre is made up of to be reborn in, and have a second life of usefulness to the human race. One of these exciting opportunities for the tyre is to be Crumbed. Crumbing involves shredding the whole tyre into a granulated substance. This is very useful stuff. Astroturf makes extensive use of Crumb rubber, and there is such thing as rubberized asphalt.
One thing that can happen is they can be retreaded and sold on as used tyres at a second hand car parts in Auckland. This isn’t what always happens. Some tyres can’t be retreaded because they are just much too worn down.
Rubber tyre waste can also be used as a souce of energy via the process of incineration. This of course is bad for the environment and not really falling under the definition of recycling, but according to my sources most tyres meet this hellish fate.
There is a process called Pyrolysis that heats the tyre up in a way that doesn’t use air. Apparently this separates oil and gas from the tyre to be used as energy.
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