Michigan produces heaps of old tires each year. By a commonly cited estimate, there’s one scrap tire for each person every year. That’s some 10 million hunks of rubber, steel and synthetic components ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Holcim keeps insisting that burning whole scrap tires in its Trident cement kiln is the same as ...

Rubber is a difficult material to recycle. Each year millions of pounds of industrial scrap and over 250 million scrap tires are disposed of in North America. Rubber, being a thermoset material, ...

My son, who owns his own car, seems to take pleasure in showing off the power of his engine by spinning his wheels upon takeoff. He says it's harmless fun. I say he is burning rubber and costing ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — A local man is facing charges for allegedly burning rubber downtown last summer, laying down black tire marks with his Ford pickup across three rainbow-painted crosswalks. “The ...

CHICAGO — During a weekend of hot, high-speed friction against the asphalt of the NASCAR Chicago Street Race course, thousands of tires burn out and wear down. After a few dozen laps, they lose their ...

There are no two ways about it, Formula 1 is a big ol' waste of natural resources in the name of entertainment, burning through fuel at each race, releasing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere ...