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Recycling Tires to Produce Printer Ink

07/28/2005 1:30 PM

Three inventors from Derbyshire (U.K.) have been awarded a patent for their plan to produce printer ink from recycled tires. The trio plans to bake tires at 800°C in order to break them down into components that can be filtered and reheated to create carbon powder. If this technology works, you can have any color ink you'd like - as long as it's black.

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The Feature Creep

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Cost

07/28/2005 1:57 PM

The big question is whether this process is cheaper then the tradition cost of producing ink. Also when they render the tires does it produce a ton of air pollution?
Just because something is made from recycled materials doesn't make it environmentally friendly.

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