They are artificial turf, a synthetic carpet of grass-colored fibers filled with a layer of tiny rubber particles called crumb rubber that make the surface feel soft and natural. What crumb rubber ...

But there’s a rub: the rubber. Styrene butadiene, more commonly known as “crumb rubber,” is a granular material made from recycled tires that is poured over artificial grass to provide ...

Those little black dots are the crumb rubber used as infill on more than 13,000 playing and practice fields across the U.S. Each of those fields uses 20,000 to 40,000 shredded waste tires to ...

An employee of a crumb rubber plant in the East Valley has tragically lost his life after a workplace accident overnight.

Eddie Lard More than 5 million tires are replaced and scrapped every year in Alabama. When improperly discarded, old tires ...

The reason: Crumb rubber. The Great Falls Citizens Association’s Environment, Parks and Trails Committee passed a new resolution 9-0 opposing the use of crumb rubber infill on synthetic turf fields.

In Edina, parents raised concerns about the material in 2016 when the school district proposed replacing four grass athletic fields with synthetic turf with crumb rubber infill. But school ...

According to Oliver, NeoCrumb's differentiators includes the development of a refined proprietary process for combining plastic resins and crumb rubber. That competency allows it to create alloy ...