Every year, millions of tires end up in landfills, creating an environmental crisis with far-reaching consequences. In the United States alone, over 274 million tires were scrapped in 2021, with ...

Rubber is a highly valuable material with a massive global market. Although its use dates back hundreds of years, it was primarily restricted to natural rubber from trees. The modern process of ...

While pyrolysis—a process that chemically recycles rubber through high-temperature decomposition—is widely ... In a test with a model polymer, they broke it down significantly, reducing its molecular ...

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Baker Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States ...