Conserving Our Natural Resources
Seemingly on any media outlet, we hear about environmental issues, conserving our natural resources and reducing our carbon footprint. Any small thing we can do will have an impact to our future and our children’s future.
Retreads are environmentally friendly. Every year in the United States, the use of retread tires saves over 400 million gallons of oil. Tires are basically petrochemical products. It takes 22 gallons of oil to manufacture one new tire. The majority of that oil is found in the tire casing which is reused in the retreading process. Only 7 gallons of oil are needed to retread that same tire. As a result, up to 15 gallons of oil are saved each time a tire is retreaded. For every 100 retread tires sold, 1500 gallons of oil can be saved.
A second environmental advantage is realized at overcrowded landfills throughout the world. Each time a tire is retread, the disposal option is avoided. Because each casing can be retread an average of three times, the tire disposal problem can be reduced by up to 75 percent.
For more information on how to keep our environment green with retread tires, please review the Tire Retread Information Bureau