Rubber tires are built to last, but that durability makes them a nightmare to recycle. Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) have developed a mild, ...

The Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World War I. Polymerization (the process of linking molecules together in long ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. A research team at KAIST Department of Chemistry has ...

Rubber from rubber trees, if grown sustainably like, say, trees for paper manufacturing, doesn't seem especially problematic. Plant some trees, let them grow and lock away carbon, harvest and repeat.

New Delhi, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- South America synthetic rubber market was worth US$ 1,367.47 million in 2022 and is expected to reach US$ 1,898.52 million by 2031 at a CAGR of 4.19% ...

RUBBER Synthetic and the Future The Office of Rubber Director asked permission last week to cut its own throat. It was the first wartime Government agency to put it that way. For rubber pro ...

Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Sept. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Market of synthetic rubber is in the middle of transition due to the changes in some of the industrial sectors and demand ...