Abstract
In 2009, a company called SNRG Corp. announced the purchase of an advanced rubber devulcanization technology. The firm said it would use the process to build a facility in Houston to extract 80 million lb of recycled rubber per year from scrap tires. “The technology being acquired by the company is unique, proven, and ready for commercial production,” SNRG proclaimed. The Houston plant was never built, nor were most of the facilities trumpeted over the years as being able to turn the environmental problem of old tires into valuable raw materials. Undeterred, a new batch of companies is embarking on a fresh round of projects intended to extract devulcanized rubber or carbon black from spent tires. The backers of these projects insist they have solved the technological and economic problems that hobbled high-tech tire recycling in the past. Thankfully, the huge mountains of bald tires that blighted the American landscape ...
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