ONE MORE TIME There is one invention I've waited to see come forth over the years. When are we going to see automobile, truck and aircraft tires made from recycled plastic materials?
We see other products coming into the market place at regular intervals which have proved to be successful and I wonder when we are going to make tires for all of our fine array of wheeled vehicles ...bikes, wagon, and carts for kids; roller skates, golf carts, ATV's, lawn mowers, farm equipment, roller skates, golf carts, and all cars, trucks and every bus as well as super-cars for the race place.
It must have come to me along about the time we really started to take recycling seriously and began to return or stash away at home all of those handy plastic bags from the food markets that I realized what was being done with them.
Shoppers, commonly thought they were being “melted down” and refashioned into more shopping bags – of a different, darker color each timer around. Not so. The neat, sturdy and corrosion and rot proof posts, poles, gates and pylons nearby farmers were buying and installing were of recyled plastic bags. The new flagpole down at the High School or at the V.F.W's war memorial site might be, plus your local garden shops flower pots,urns, holders and decoration. The new in your pathway are more likely to be of recycled plastic than of rare slate.
I realize that manufacturing is not always as simple as it may seem and there may be very sound reasons for not developing vehicle tires of such materials.On possible reason may well be at concerning overheating of materials in such stringest use. If such a problem exist it should be made public so that others may work in solving it. To cast the potential of such a source of needed equipment aside because it might prove too costly, or that it might disruptive to present marketing strategies is unwise.
Physical properties of the materials developed may vary greatly, but those qualites desired can be, in time, strengthgened and made more practical. It is quite true, I must admit, that solid rubber tires and others which were solid but with two-inch openings all around and throiugh thebody of the tire to allow the surfaced of the tire to relax - plus many versions of a modified surface - did not catch-on with the buying public when they were available in the past. It is obvious that we still need lab work and studies as to the problems which may be involved, but to keep the concept under lock and key is not the best way to go about advancing the product.
Who, if anyone, is working on such a use of plastic for automotive and other tires?
Why don't we ever hear anything about such a project?
A.L.M. August 27, 2005 [c402wds]
