Rubber Mulch Blog

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 rubber to its full potential?

We could have furniture that is partly made from recycled rubber, as long as it is coated with a flame retardant substance. What about using it in the stage building industry? These are just two ideas that I’m sure would need a lot more thought and would probably never happen, but why are they not worth thinking about? Read the rest of this entry »

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 frost away from the roots. You can also use whole tires to create swings for children. You should be able to find plenty of places and people who would be happy to give you their old useless tires for free.

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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 the collection of these discarded tires. Tires left on landfill sites or burn harm the environment, so a much better way is to recycle this abundance of rubber. A whole host of new markets have opened up recently to make good use of this rubber, one being the tire mulch industry. Recycling rubber tires not only helps the environment, but the economy too, as people need to be employed for the recycling process of rubber.

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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 using to play hide and seek with, and multi colored bags flying up in the air creating what some might consider as modern art in our trees surrounding the environment.

The snails, seemed to be enjoying themselves especially, the one who was stuck, kind of half way in, and half way out. He was wriggling about faster than I have ever seen a snail move, in his natural environment.
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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, and an indicator to all people who see it, that you are helping the environment!
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You May rememmber we published a post a few weeks ago that titled small ways you can help the enviroment today well we have come up with a list of 7 more ways to help ot the enviroment, hence a part II to the previous post.

Starting a new small environmental friendly habit today can really help ensure the future of the planet, especially if you can encourage your friends, family and acquaintances to do the same. Here are seven things that you could start doing today.

1. Instead of using paper cups, paper napkins and towels, tissues (for your blowing your nose), try using mugs that you can wash up, cloth napkins and towels you can reuse, and handkerchiefs that you can wash. This way you will make sure that you are creating less waste going into the environment on a daily basis

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With ever increasing bad weather fronts, like floods, tornado’s and hurricanes our environment is changing at a faster pace than at any point in our history, of recorded weather.

All over the world defense systems designed for our safety are basically not good enough. So what if anything can be done to control, or even calm our environment and the changes that will occur to it in the future?

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Paper, plastic bags, tins, bottles and cardboard packaging are all types of waste, which the average person will throw out on a daily basis. By choosing not to recycle these items, by throwing them into your regular bin, they will end up on a landfill site and you will be damaging our environment further.

Local councils, states and governments now all push for recycling facilities and collections, so the excuses for choosing not to recycle are in decline. Really, we should feel socially responsible to recycle the waste we personally produce.

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We all want to help save the environment in some way but the majority of us don’t have the time to join major environmental campaigns. However, if all we did some of these small things listed below, we could be all be instrumental in saving our planet.

1. We should take our own bags when we do shopping at the supermarket. Trillions of bags are manufactured every year worldwide and that’s a lot of waste so bringing in our own bags when we do the shopping would reduce this waste.

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When we think about our children, do we really think about what we are leaving them?

Sure we do, but the majority of us are only thinking in material terms by building up our wealth, so it can be theirs when we die.

Really we should start thinking about how and where they are going to live. Our earth is damaged but it’s not beyond repair yet. What we do environmentally wise will affect our children and their children.

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