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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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Re:Bounce newsletter

The latest issue of Re:Bounce, our newsletter, is due out. Read how good use continues to be made of recycled car tyres within areas such as cyclin...

New report on SBR and health risks

Concerns about the health risks of granulated rubber from recycled tyres (SBR) have been investigated by Sweco, on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and in cooperation with the Swedish Chemicals Agency, and the resulting report was published on 9th May 2016. Studies indicate that: “the use of SBR in football pitches does not represent an increased risk of people suffering adverse health effects”.

The master collector for business and pleasure

The master collector for business and pleasure

In 2016, Ragn-Sells collected 87,000 tons of tyres in Sweden on behalf of SDAB. Over 6,000 tyre workshops and recycling plants contributed with tyr...

Agreement on redeeming used tyres

Agreement on redeeming used tyres

Workshops or local authorities can sign an agreement for collection of used tyres. Download agreement here. Our contractor, Ragn-Sells, collects ty...

Ragn-Sells are responsible for collecting used tyres for the SDAB

Ragn-Sells collects and recycles all used tyres in Sweden from all sorts of vehicles. The tyres are sent for material recycling and energy generation.

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