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 ...

Today, rubber materials are found everywhere, supporting areas like transportation, health services, and consumer products.

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.

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 ...