We have all seen the pictures of old car tires stacked up at the landfill or seen the scrapes left littering the sides of the highway. It's a hard thing to look and not wonder if there isn't something better that could be done with them or some other purpose they could serve. Fortunately, there is! Recycling. While the practice of recycling rubber has been in existence for more than one hundred years, it has only been since the early 1990's that a real effort has been made toward recycling tires [...more]

According to an article from June 22, 2009 on recyclingtoday.com Liberty Tire Company, which is one of the largest tire recycling companies in the entire country, has bought the Texas based company Able Tire Co. According to the article, the deal will merge the scrap tire market in Texas and Oklahoma. Able tire has been in business for about sixteen years and they do one of three things with their scrap tires: resold them, use them as fuel or use them as fill. Liberty tire will gain this from [...more]