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 [...]
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 rubber [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 using [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]