Solid Waste and Energy Management

North America generates over 300 million waste tires a year.  The vast majority of these waste tires are either burned or buried.  Synthetic rubber takes about 65,000 BTU's of energy a pound to create.  Energy recovery through burning is about 16,000 BTUs/lb.  The Redwood recycling and remolding process consumes a fraction of the energy needed to produce synthetic rubber from raw materials.  Diverting tires from landfills and incineration facilities to Redwood style recycling facilities to manufacture high value rubber products will reduce demand for virgin synthetic rubber, drastically lower waste disposal needs, and lower overall energy consumption in the entire rubber cradle to cradle life cycle.

Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Current tire disposal and burning practices, and raw material manufacturing processes result in hundreds of millions of lbs of CO2 emissions per year.  One ton of Tires when burned is converted into 3.6 tons of CO2, Green House Gases.  Redwood Rubber's patented technology will divert tires from landfills and incinerators and substitute raw material manufacturing with the more energy-efficiently produced recycled rubber material.  This will significantly reduce global emissions of CO2, and mitigate global warming. 

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Lower Transportation Costs

Tires manufactured with the Redwood Rubber recycled rubber have all the same properties as tires manufactured with traditional virgin raw material.  However, the Redwood Rubber material can be produced at a fraction of the cost and energy consumption of virgin raw material.  This can lower the cost of  manufacturing tires and other rubber materials and lower transportation costs.  This can benefit the economy worldwide. 

For further information, please contact Mr. Tom Faust at tfaust@redwoodrubber.com