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From Sandals To Flooring, There Are Many Ways To Reuse An Old Tire

Posted August 12, 2014 1:47 PM

From Autoblog:

Furniture, flip flops and floors, oh my! Those are just a few of the products being repurposed from a faction of the 1.5 billion tires that get discarded each year, according to a fun little story from the BBC. And, if nothing else, the reincarnated products are durable.

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Re: From Sandals To Flooring, There Are Many Ways To Reuse An Old Tire

08/13/2014 3:26 PM

Our local Portland plant uses them to fire the ovens...the cement produced makes excellent concrete products. I'm not sure about the use of concrete shoes.

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