Hello Blake, you are a former baseball professional, when did you begin to sculpt with recycled tyres?
I started sculpting with tyres...
Bernie & Monica craft designer furniture from tyres
Australian company Retyred converts used vehicle tyres into designer furniture. Re:Bounce was intrigued and contacted company founders Bernie Kuder...
Eco-friendly water treatment with tyre rubber
Tyre rubber has been successfully used for waste water treatment in many countries for over 20 years. Now there’s growing interest in Sweden as wel...
The Swedish Transport Administration (STA) expects continued use
The STA's project to mix rubber in asphalt in its current form has been running since 2007. Torsten Nordgren from the STA is working on the project...
Viveca makes bike paths softer
More and more people are cycling, a trend deemed to be good for public health. But statistics also show that the number of injuries from cycling ha...
Public health is the winner when all-weather pitches replace natural grass
The new all-weather playing surfaces are becoming established all around the world, whilst natural grass pitches seem to be finding it more difficu...
Rubber from recycled car tyres - a high value material
Tommy Edeskär, Technical Director at Luleå Technical University, compiled a status report on SDAB's behalf on uses and demand for processed materia...
More birdsong in California
The state of California in the USA has decided that 50% of all new asphalt road surfaces must contain at least 15% tyre rubber as from the autumn o...
Biofiltering using tyre chips reduces the amounts of nitrogen, phosphor and sulphate
Anyone approaching the sewage works at Heinola in Finland will notice a faint odour. But it doesn't come from the container in the middle of the ya...
We welcome dialogue
The SDAB invites the authorities, politicians, companies and organisations to take part in dialogue on how we can optimise the use of tyres in ways...
All-weather football pitches
One area making rapid inroads and that will be highly important to youngsters and elite sports, is artificial grass for football. Pitches made of t...
Blake gives old tires life
”I started sculpting with tyres in 2013.” What sort of response have you had? ”It’s been fantastic. I had never expected that my tyre sculptures...