ENVIRONMENT

Hazards of Recycled Rubber

The Contamination Continues

V. Bray
4 min readJun 10, 2022

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Pile of used tires. Photo by Acton Crawford on Unsplash.
Photo by Acton Crawford on Unsplash

Last year I wrote a post outlining the hazards of recycled rubber, which include health complications from airborne contaminants to chemicals leached into soil and drinking water. Since I wrote that post, a local park installed two new playgrounds with recycled rubber material. On hot days the petrochemical smells carry on the…

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V. Bray

Fiction writer, essayist, and poet. Author of many genres, but always connected to nature somehow. Learn more at www.authorvbray.com