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Three Ways to Recycle Tires
There are three ways that we could potentially recycle some tires, but only one of them isn't true. We could use old tires to make new tires - it is possible already, but you can only use a small amount of rcycled material in each new tire. A team in singapore recently made a break through in processing old tires using a freeze drying process. The resulting recycled rubber was much higher quality and opens the door for a more circular economy with tires. Number two, we could useOld tires as a replacement for human tissues. So by processing recovered carbon black from tires and bathing them in sulphuric acid, researchers were able to make anodes for lithium ion batteries which performed
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