Sentences with phrase «old rubber tires»

Now Santa Monica, California - based design firm Minarc have come up with yet another great rubbery idea: bathroom sinks made from recycled tires.According to Architect Magazine (which gave the sinks a R+D thumbs - up this year), the so - called RUBBiSH sinks are created by melting down old rubber tires and cleansing them of any remaining particulates.

Trees are being grown out of the middle of old rubber tires.

From Earthships and building materials, to water filters, shoes and bags, old rubber tires have long been a veritable gold mine when it comes to material reuse potential.

Not exact matches

Years ago, when my grandfather was still alive and they lived in a trailer park community just outside of Regina, there was a playground of old tractor tires at the end of the dirt road and I can still smell it, the mix of hot melting rubber in the Saskatchewan heat and the faint smell of urine from within them because little boys would pee in them, everyone knew that.

So you can reduce environmental wear and tear by wearing items that can take a beating: Tennis ball watches or old - typewriter bracelets, recycled rubber tire shoes and bags; but eco-trends are a flimsy substitute for real change.

Although the spare still wears the factory - equipped Pirelli Scorpion tire, the rolling four have been swapped in favor of modern General - brand All Terrains due to the safety concerns with three - decade - old rubber.

The company invited a few journalists and some tire industry people to Las Vegas Motor Speedway to test the new rubber, and to check out some of the old stuff too.

Because the 2007 model's stiffness allows the suspension to do its job more precisely, the car now comes standard with 17 - inch wheels with 225 / 50R tires (18 - inch wheels with 235/45 rubber are optional) replacing the old model's 16s.

The difference between modern winter tires and those old snow tires is night and day, in the ratio of rubber on the road, and the chemistry of the rubber.

We get our BMW E36 M3 project car ready for its first track day by replacing the tired and worn old rubber for a new set of Yokohama S.drive tires.

Mounted on Michelin Pilot rubber with redline stripes added by Diamond Back Classic tires, the big shoes fit nicely under the old curvy fiberglass with some help from the Art Morrison chassis and 3 ″ tubbed rear wheels wells.

Participants experience life the «Old West» way, traveling in authentic covered wagons (modernized with rubber tires and padded seats) and camping in provided tents at night.

Moving away from illustration, Siskind embraced the seemingly insignificant markings of time, the random traces of removed broadsides, the vestiges of old graffiti, the tracks of a rubber tire.

Donald Sultan's fascination with industrial materials began at his father's tire shop in Asheville, North Carolina, where rubber was ground off old tires, heated and placed onto new tires and then into molds.

These industrial spaces are ideal for rope climbs, tossing around medicine balls and old tractor tires, and dropping heavy weights on the floors, which are sometimes made of recycled or reused rubber.

KTH's researchers are working to blend in just the right amount of recycled tire rubber from old car tires to soften up the mix.

Crumb rubber, chewed up old tires, is used on athletic tracks, playgrounds, and increasingly as an alternative to mulch.

Generally, this kind of business is subject to minimal regulation, but environmental laws to limit the scope of businesses that may legally dispose of certain kinds of waste such as toxic materials (e.g. drugs, batteries, things containing lead or mercury such as many electronic parts, petroleum products, rubber tires), and how certain materials must be handled (e.g. old refrigerators have to have doors removed).