Civil engineering has a wide range of applications for rubber mulch/crumb rubber. In most applications, RMD rubber mulch is used as a replacement for some other material currently used in construction such as expanded shale, drainage aggregate, or even soil or clean fill. The single biggest use of scrap tires in the United States and the European Union is as fuel. Whole tires and rough tire chips are used at cement kilns, pulp and paper mills, power plants, waste-to-energy plants and industrial boilers. In 2000, approximately 47 percent of the 273 million scrap tires generated in the United States were burned for fuel.

Crumb rubber is also an excellent replacement for stone or rock in septic systems and to improve drainage and for filtration.

As of 2003, 39 states approve tire shreds for civil engineering applications.
(Source: Rubber Manufacturers Association, 2003.)

RMD Americans Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) is 1 1/2 - 2” chip.
RMD Americas Septic grade is 1 1/2 - 2” chip.

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