Develop A New Sustainable Product

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Develop a new sustainable product

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Introduction

It’s quite disappointing that the human race is very gifted in innovation but cannot take

care of what their innovations give off as waste. For instance the automotive industry has seen its

revolution in advanced technologies from manual cars to automatic one, to hydraulic brakes, race

cars and the continued prestige associated with owning a car has made the business boom like

Christmas. Transportation has become a growing need for everyone making the automotive

industries to manufacture more and more automobiles to meet the growing demand. For every

automobile manufactures, a set of tires are required be it of a bicycle, motorcycle, cars, trucks,

bulldozers, airplanes and the list continues. Tire demand has increased the demand for rubber

making it the most used rubber product in tonnage (Yehia, 2007).

Worn out tires are usually disposed in pits and landfills or compiled in a garage day in

day out with no use. Very few people take the initiative of recycling the tires or making them for

better use. Some result to burning them releasing a lot of smoke containing greenhouse gases like

carbon which have detrimental effects on the ozone layer and the environment at large.

Sustainability has had its fair share in today’s world but no one seems to understand what it

entails. The principle of sustainability fosters in the aspect of environmental consciousness for

products and services in any business or industry. Although there are measures to reduce the

number of tires disposed to the environment like fuel generation from tires, remarketing, civil

engineering products and exportation, about 20 % of the total disposed tires are not put into any

use (Downward et al, 2014). The bead wires contained in tires can be utilized to make

sustainable products such as chain links and barbed wires instead of making them from raw

products. This will increase the bid for recycling scrrap tires.

The problem

In U.S individual tires amounting to 240 million are disposed annually ending up in

landfills, ditches, creeks and ravines. Due to their accumulation, they are at times burnt to reduce

them and by doing so, smoke rich in CO, CO

, SO

and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

(Downward et al, 2014) is released to the environment. These constituents are toxic, hazardous

and bear the risk of causing chronic diseases like cancer. Respiratory diseases are common for

people living around these frequent fires and eye irritation. When fire from tires starts, it can be

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uncontrollable and can burn for a very long period of time and this is evident in states without

tire management programs.

It has also been found out that scrap tires provide breeding grounds for disease carriers’

insects such as mosquitoes. It also contaminates the soil and ground water supply, air pollution,

and the environment at large making it loose its aesthetic value. Tires are enormous and take up

much space. They occupy space that could otherwise be used for better purposes.

Remedies

Measures have been put up to control the

contribution of used tires to environmental degradation.

Some of these strategies involve innovative use like

construction of packing lots of bicycles, or handbags

from used tires, high quality furniture like round sofas,

play grounds made from rubber, flower ponds, artifacts,

swings and rubberized asphalt (MacGregory, 2017).

Because of the long times taken to decompose, tires can sustainably be used for other purposes

other than burning or disposing them.

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Insecurity and property trespassing are a common phenomenon in the society. Many have

resulted to construction of perimeter walls, electric fence or use of metals fencing especially in

These programs have played a great

deal in environmental protection. Products

made from tires have been known to last for

long periods compared to their wooden

counterparts. Governments should invest more

in such innovations and provide jobs and

market opportunities for youths and others.

people.

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the cities while others use live fence from plantation, iron sheets, and barbed wire in the sub-

urban and rural environments. The purpose being to keep those on the inside from getting outside

and those on the outside from getting inside. All this come with a high cost of expenditure from

the raw materials used in construction. This excerpt explains how used tires can be used to

construct barbed wires chain links as a sustainable development project.

Tires are basically made of three basic constituents, the rubber constituting of the outer

layer, chemicals and tube and chains of reinforcing steel wires running round the tire. The rubber

part has been emphasized and the numbers of products that can be obtained from it are countless

but little efforts have been made to make products out of the bead wires in the tires. The only

thing as per now that is being done is recycling of the bead steel wires from the tires by the steel

and scrape recycling companies (Mortensen, 2013) thus the need for further research on ways to

utilize the bead wires.

UNI-CUT SP. Image source: recyclingproductnews.com

After the wire has been isolated, the wires are further treated to ensure they are clean and

safe and then galvanized to protect them from corrosion. They are then smelted and condensed to

produce wire with a diameter of about 2.5mm which are then put in a machine that intertwines a

pair to add strength. Barbs are also added in the process at a constant distance. Another set of

wires is taken and run in a crisscross diamond like pattern vertical to each other hooking up at

designated points each time the touch (Chauhan, 2014) using a chain link machine. After the

desired length has been acquired, the barbed wire is run across the chain link to add to its

strength. The barbs also serve as additional security to the chain links. For installation, the

First and foremost, the wire has to

be removed from the scrap tires for it to be

put into use. Technology has had its fair

share in designing machineries that are

capable of separating the bead wires from

their constituent tire e.g. the UNI-CUT SP

tire wire cleaner that gives off clean and

valuable steel ready to be used.

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product is installed in a similar way as the normal fencing. Chain link and barbed wires made

from scrap tires will help in reducing the number of used tires pilling in landfills and a better way

of recycling.

Image source: Google

Barbed wire and chain links made from scrap tires are cheap to manufacture since they

are made from recycled steel. They provide alternatives to stone made perimeter walls. Steel

Chain links do not overlap with live fence but instead complement each other giving an outline

of growth. They occupy less space as compared to other types of fence. They are easy to install

and maintain.

Conclusion

From the above discussion, scrap tires are a growing challenge to recyclers, governments

and manufacturing companies. Unless more is done in addition to what is being done, piles of

used tires will continue to grow leading to more environmental and health related challenges.

The utilization of whole tires for use in artifacts and other innovative ways has helped in

reducing the tire piles. Utilization of the bead steel wires contained in tires will become a major

boost for the recyclers and environmentalists. This product is environmental conscious and

sustainable as compared to similar products because of its recycling nature, cost of production

and its long term use.

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References

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Downward J., Singh A., Bullard R., Jayarathne T., Rathnayake C.M., Simmons D.L., Wels B.L.,

Spak S.N., Peters T., Beardsley D., Stanier C.O. and Stone E.A. (2014). Uncontrolled

combustion of shredded tires in a landfill – part 1: Characterization of gaseous and

particulate emissions. Atmospheric Environment Vol 104, pp 195 – 2014.

MacGregor, Kelly. (2017). Things That Can Be Made From Recycled Tires. Sciencing.

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Eco Green equipment. (2014). How do old, discarded tires affect the environment?

http://ecogreenequipment.com/how-do-old-discarded-tires-affect-the-environment/

South Central Lowa solid waste Agency. (2016). The problem with waste tires.

https://sciswa.org/the-problem-with-waste-tires/

Mortensen C. (2013). Markets for wire and fiber from waste tires. California Dpartment of

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Recycling product news (2010). New machine effectively cleans steel wire from tires.

https://www.recyclingproductnews.com/article/15156/new-machine-effectively-cleans-

steel-wire-from-tires

Chauhan P. (2014). Manufacturing process for chain link fencing.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141110123056-206689765-manufacturing-process-

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