WRAP Research
The Only Viable Approach

Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) works in partnership to encourage and enable businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and recycle more things more often. This helps to minimise landfill, reduce carbon emissions and improve our environment.

In this project WRAP worked with a supplier of waste tyre rubber crumb, J Allcock & Sons, and a rubber research institute, the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre (TARRC), to develop improved chemical systems that would lead to a commercially viable process for recycling end of life tire rubber at high levels into high-value new rubber products with demanding specifications. This report indicates that DeLink is the only viable current approach to chemical devulcanization.

Read the report (PDF)

The links below are provided as a courtesy for more information about the recycling industry and related envirnmental initiatives.

ISRI - Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, Inc.

TAARC - Tun Abdul Razak research Centre

Rubber Manufacturers Association

Bureau of International Recycling

The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide

Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

National Recycling Coalition

Environmental Defense Fund

America Recycles Day

Earthday Network

National Resources Defense Council

Recycling and Composting Online

Solid Waste Association of North America

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