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How green is rubber?
A study of the environmental impact of rubber
Recycling and material recovery
According to the Used Tyre Working Group's 2001 survey 22% of vehicle tyres were recycled, 8.3% went to energy recovery, 9.9% were retreaded, 16% were reused and 3.3% were used in landfill engineering. The remainder (approximately 40%) went to landfill, stockpile or illegally disposed of.
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42 percent of all rubber is produced from natural sources.
Rubber plantations throughout the world cover over 9.2 million hectares.
It takes 70% less oil to retread old tires than it does to make new tires.
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