Recycle at Home, With Your Home

Banker & Tradesman, Jan 28, 2024–Lew Sichelman
Scrap tires have been recycled for years into building products like flooring, infill decking and septic system drain fields. Actually, entire houses can be built with the millions of tires that are tossed out every year. To build so-called Earthships, for example, whole tires are filled with dirt and covered with concrete to create walls. But rubber tires are hardly the only items recycled into products for our homes. So are newspapers, glass bottles, wine bottle corks and some of the millions of plastic bags we bring home every day.
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