{"id":535117,"date":"2010-04-20T06:23:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8517"},"modified":"2010-04-20T06:23:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:23:23","slug":"great-moments-in-tire-recycling-history%e2%80%a6no-wait-make-that-cool-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535117","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Tire Recycling History\u2026No Wait, Make that Cool Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8520\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/20\/great-moments-in-tire-recycling-history-no-wait-make-that-cool-moments\/new-tire-recycling-process-yields-high-performance-rubber\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8520\" title=\"new tire recycling process yields high performance rubber\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/new-tire-recycling-process-yields-high-performance-rubber.jpg\" alt=\"Lehigh Technologies develops a cyrogenic process for recycling scrap tires into fine powder\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a>The world of tire recycling is expanding with dizzying speed, and now we can add <a title=\"lehigh technologies website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lehightechnologies.com\/\" >Lehigh Technologies&#8217;s<\/a> deep freeze to the mix.\u00a0 The company has come up with <a title=\"technologyreview.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/25155\/page1\/\" >a new tire recycling process that produces a fine powder<\/a> instead of the crumbs and nuggets produced by conventional recycling.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Phil McKenna of <a title=\"technologyreview.com website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\" >Technology Review<\/a>, the new process involves freezing shredded tires in a bath of liquid nitrogen which chills them down to minus 100 degrees Centigrade, and then smashing them to smithereens.\u00a0 Sounds simple, but sometimes simpler is better: the World Economic Forum placed <a title=\"world economic forum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.weforum.org\/en\/Communities\/Technology%20Pioneers\/TechnologyPioneers\/index.htm\" >Lehigh and its new recycling process<\/a> among its 2010 Technology Pioneers, under the tantalizing theme of &#8220;Embracing Disruption.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/20\/great-moments-in-tire-recycling-history-no-wait-make-that-cool-moments\/#more-8517\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of tire recycling is expanding with dizzying speed, and now we can add Lehigh Technologies&#8217;s deep freeze to the mix.\u00a0 The company has come up with a new tire recycling process that produces a fine powder instead of the crumbs and nuggets produced by conventional recycling. As reported by Phil McKenna of Technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}