Using Old Tire Rubber For Roofing

Manufacturers purchase massive quantities of old tires an average roof requires anywhere from 250 to 1000 tires and dissect the hard rubber rings into small chunks which are fed into a granulating process.

Using old tire rubber for roofing.

Old tires can be converted into roofing material. A composite roof shake offers a superior formulation which includes recycled tire rubber. It looks like traditional cedar shakes but is more durable and keeps scrap tires from being buried in a landfill. Passenger car tires are 55 to 45 per cent light truck tires are 50 to 50 per cent race tires are 65 to 35 per cent and off highway tires 20 to 80 per cent.

The rubber fragments are then scraped clean of any steel and nylon threads. During my research i also found the typical percentages of the synthetic rubber and natural rubber rubber mix in various types of tires.