Recycling Car Carrier Wheels

Owner operator trucking professionals concerned about the environmental impact their waste tires might be having on Mother Earth can relax a little. The latest reports around the transport industry indicates that the tires your car carrier uses and then discards after a significant number of road hours may soon be recycled to produce hydrogen. A team of scientists at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom is presently working on a system that could produce significant amounts of usable hydrogen from the waste tires the car transportation industry discards.

In Europe they have a different way of taking care of waste tires from the car transport industry and other sources, they actually recover the materials and energy in the tires, while doing a significant percentage of retreading of old tires. In the United States we tend to use waste tires from the car shipping industry to obtain energy, ground rubber and other civil engineering applications. This could of course be changing in the years ahead, but this will of course depend on projects like the one being conducted in the United Kingdom on uses for waste tires.

The general rate of waste tires is also increasing in the United States and the world according to transport industry sources. In 2007, the volume of waste tires was around 4.6 million tonnes in the United States, around 3.4 million tonnes in Europe and more than a million tonnes in Japan and China. The volume of waste tires is likely to increase, so we need to find a solution that allows us to recover the materials and energy that we put into producing these tires, so that we can use it for other uses.

The goods news is that the scientists and researchers in the transport industry are at work on this problem and hopefully in a few years or sooner, they'll come up with other solutions to this problem of waste tires. This will certainly make vehicle transport professionals that have been thinking about the impact of their waste tires on Mother Earth and it should help them sleep better at night.