money spent sources Spare

Tire: Recycled “A Brief History of Rubber.”

Spray Paint:
Mongabay.com,
rainforests.mongabay.com/10
rubber.htm.
Herbs
Wood: $2.07 LAUREN SPARKS
Shaw, Michael D. “Skid Row:
Tarp: Recycled Where Do Old Tires Go to
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Herbs: $12 go-die/.

Decor: optional Freudenrich, Ph.D. Craig.

“How Rubber Works.”
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Total: $14.07 2018,
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“Benefits of Recycling Rubber

For The Tire Industry.” Tire
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www.tirerecappers.com/tire-
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history of
rubber
Rubber was originally
founded by the indigenous
people of Mesoamerica from
a rich, white tree sap. But, in
1869, Charles Goodyear
dropped rubber and sulfur on
a hot stove, creating the
leather-like, elastic rubber
that we know today. This
prompted a mass production
and use of rubber.
Charles Goodyear
so, where would it
chemistry of
go?
rubber
If I didn't upcycle the
tire, it would have ended
Rubber is created by a process called
up in a landfill, only to
vulcanization. In scientific terms, this is
be burned with
"when polyisoprene strands are heated
thousands of other old with sulfur and lead oxide, the sulfur
tires. This burning atoms attack the double bonds in the
process emits harmful polyisoprene strands and bind to the
gases into the air, which carbon atoms." (How Rubber Works) But,
the more sulfur you add to the rubber,
can be detrimental to the
the harder it will be.
environment and human
health.
rubber infographic