It has always been the aim of tyre recycling to get tyre rubber back into tyres. It has for so long been the El Dorado of the industry.
Yet, for many years the tyre industry denied using even reclaim rubber, and technicians absolutely refuted any idea that they would use any recycled materials.
Of course, that denial wasn’t quite as solid as the manufacturers would have had us believe. Reclaim has always been used to create a price differential – and even if that content was at a low level, it was, for sure, part of the tyre industry supply chain, however surreptitiously it was us...
