Rubber mulch is made from recycled tires that are transformed into rubber granules. These rubber granules (mulch) go through a rigorous safety check to ensure that there are no metal particles and that each granule comes out non-toxic.
Traditionally, mulch in the form of wood was used exclusively for gardening and landscaping. With the arrival of [...]
1. Rubber mulch is child-friendly
Rubber mulch is an effective shock absorber. Using rubber mulch for flooring, especially in playgrounds and kiddie gyms, will definitely lessen the number of accidents and fall-related injuries.
Rubber mulch is also non-toxic, so it’s safe to allow toddlers and young children to enjoy themselves on rubber mulch [...]
I have taken quite an interest in rubber mulch lately because I am awed by its many uses. Here are the things I learned about this wonderful discovery:
Fast Fact No. 1: Tires yield rubber mulch
Well, almost any tire, that is. Rubber mulch is derived from thin slivers of waste rubber called buffings. Little nuggets of [...]
Consider this: out of the 71.9 million new automobiles that were sold worldwide, around 20 million or 28 percent were sold in the United States and Canada. That’s more cars sold compared to Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa combined. And while it’s true that the prohibitive cost of fuel has slightly put a [...]
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 [...]
When the frosts come and ice or snow hit our gardens hard, there are all sorts of things that we have been told we can do to protect our plants. This is all good and well, but what about protecting the soil around our plants.
More and more people are turning to mulch, for a protective [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]