Sustainability is a hot topic in the rubber industry. Not a day goes by that some company or another doesn't publish its annual report on the issue. While there seemingly is so much activity going on with regard to sustainability, it's sad to see that there has been some backsliding in the recycling of scrap tires, one of the most basic ways to achieve progress and success in sustainability. In its just-released 2019 Scrap Tire Management Report, the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association puts it in blunt terms: the "efforts to find and develop new uses for scrap tires have stalled." It would be a shame to see all the hard work the USTMA has put in over the past three decades to make tire recycling a success story go to waste, no pun intended. There was a time when news was common of large tire stockpiles catching fire and diseases being spread by mosquitoes that found refuge in those tires.
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