{"id":122463,"date":"2021-05-10T06:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/heres-a-cool-green-way-to-upcycle-millions-of-old-tires"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:23:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:23:07","slug":"heres-a-cool-green-way-to-upcycle-millions-of-old-tires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/heres-a-cool-green-way-to-upcycle-millions-of-old-tires","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a cool green way to upcycle millions of old tires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-a-cool-green-way-to-upcycle-millions-of-old-tires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EcoTech Recycling\u2019s patented thermodynamic process turns waste rubber into a nontoxic synthetic material for new tires, auto parts and insulation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever seen a tire graveyard piled high with trashed rubber, you can easily understand that Israeli company <a href=\"https:\/\/ecotrc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EcoTech Recycling<\/a> has a green gem of an idea.<\/p>\n<p>EcoTech\u2019s nontoxic process produces a unique material, Active Rubber (AR), from end-of-life tires. With1.6 billion tires manufactured annually, and 290 million tires discarded each year in the United States alone, tires are the world\u2019s largest source of waste rubber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRubber is a valuable commodity, and we are making it reusable,\u201d says CEO and President Gideon Drori.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EcoTech Recycling\u2019s patented thermodynamic process turns waste rubber into a nontoxic synthetic material for new tires, auto parts and insulation. If you\u2019ve ever seen a tire graveyard piled high with trashed rubber, you can easily understand that Israeli company EcoTech Recycling has a green gem of an idea. EcoTech\u2019s nontoxic process produces a unique material, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}