• Tag Archives: Tires

    Winged BMW made of recycled tires

    Posted on November 2, 2011 by shilpa

    Batman would have wanted one of these. Maybe for its looks, but for the common man with no super powers to boast, this is a pretty neat recycled BMW lookalike. In the city of Perm in Russia, this car was … Continue reading3 →

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    EnviroKats uses recycled tires for cat litter system

    Posted on July 14, 2011 by gavril

    Disposing-off tires isn’t all that easy, and can work out to be quite an expensive affair too, both to your wallet and to the environment too, given that most tire replacements include a fee of about $2.00 that’s taken into … Continue reading3 →

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    Ford uses old tires to manufacture gaskets and seals for new cars

    Posted on July 13, 2011 by gavril

    Ford isn’t a stranger to recycling. The automobile bigshot is now recycling tires, about 2.2 million pounds in all, which will be combined with soybean oil and other materials to create gaskets and seals for new cars. With a tie-up … Continue reading3 →

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    Old tires recycled to create wallets shaped like, well, underwear!

    Posted on May 27, 2011 by gavril

    We’ve known tires to end up in dumping yards. We’ve seen a few being recycled into some pretty interesting stuff. Never before have we seen tires being recycled into leather underwear-shaped wallets though. Well, they sure serve the purpose of … Continue reading3 →

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    Convert old tires into classy sink surfaces with RUBBiSH

    Posted on August 27, 2010 by kamakshi

    While passing by the old junk yard, what do you really see when you look at the used and worn out tires? You think junk, but the brilliant minds think other wise. Like those Vancouver saw a soccer field, Minarc … Continue reading3 →

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    Wooden tires cheaper and fuel-efficient

    Posted on July 27, 2009 by anoop

    According to sources, the wheel was invented when a caveman saw a tree rolling from a slope. He got the idea well conceived it well and now we have high tech tires on our cars. It is also the greatest … Continue reading3 →

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    Eco-friendly Yokohama Tires race up with a dose of orange oil

    Posted on January 29, 2009 by deepa

    As plenty of eco-friendly vehicles are slated to crowd up the lanes of the future, a tire company is working on wheeling out eco-friendly tires to complement them. Renowned for developing superior quality street as well racing tires, Yokohama Tire … Continue reading3 →

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    Used tires recycled into T-Blocks to play the role of buffers

    Posted on January 12, 2009 by deepa

    Most of us don’t bother about the tires of our vehicles after they have outlived their role. Statistics state that in America alone, out of 300 million cast-off vehicle tires only 10% is put to alternative use. The rest 90% … Continue reading3 →

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