The Green Revolution is all the rage today, as companies come up with innovative ways to recycle. Rubber, in particular, is being recycled more and more, with second and even third lives. Rubber is a substance that is easy to recycle due to its hardiness and the many uses it can have. Rubber tires are [...]
As the Green Revolution keeps gaining steam, it is spreading to all areas of daily living, from household products to the way we eat. There are some that are gaining instant popularity for their eco-friendly aspects as well as for their aesthetic appeal and other features. Rubber Mulch playground surface Playgrounds of old were built [...]
Strategically placed landscaping and flowing ferns are beautiful additions to any home or property, but no garden grows on its own. As any gardener or landscaper knows, a well tended garden takes hours of work and effort. A big part of making sure your garden is healthy and thriving comes with proper mulching. Mulching helps [...]
More than 90% of the playgrounds are considered unsafe. This is largely due to inadequate and poor surfaces. Due to this more than 200, 00 playground injuries lead to the hospital every year. The rubber mulch used for a playground should therefore fulfill some basic requirements like: It should be non-toxic Should stay in place Should be odor free Should [...]
The use of rubber mulch has been on the rise for the last few months for a variety of uses. First of all, it is a byproduct obtained from used rubber tires. Old rubber tires had once become an environmental hazard as millions of them were getting accumulated all over our country. But the invention that the [...]
When we look at the things that recycled rubber is being used for today, there are quite a lot of them, but are there enough? There are things like rubber mulch, containers (large and small), rubber compounds to cover playgrounds and other types of flooring and many more things, but are we really using recycled [...]
Using recycled tires, or whole tires in your garden décor, is a really great thing to do to help the environment and believe it or not your plants! Using whole tires as garden containers, actually helps keep your plants warm in the winter months, as they help keep the soil warm, and the therefore keeping [...]
Almost any tire can be recycled, including passenger vehicle tires (cars, motorbikes, buses and even airplanes) and commercial trucks and trailers. So you can imagine that the amount of these tires that cannot be reused because they are too worn down, or suffered irreparable damage is phenomenal. First of all the rubber recycling process involves [...]
A friend told me about this experience the other day and I think it was rather poignant. Walking around the other day was very interesting, the scenery, what I could see of it was beautiful, the soda cans were being used by young snail’s as a playground, plastic bags in the hedgerows that rats where [...]
Following from a recent blog post – Rubber Mulch FAQ, here are some more questions that are often asked about using rubber mulch in your garden. Why is rubber mulch a better alternative to wood mulch? To start of with, rubber mulch is a really environmentally friendly type of matter to have in your garden, [...]