Veteran MTA bus operator Edison Obando knows the challenges of navigating New York City streets behind the wheel of a bus. So when he climbed into one of the MTA’s new driving simulators, he said the ...

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Natural rubber, tapped from trees as latex, is the world's most widely used bio-elastomer. Comprising long molecular chains that make it pliable and stretchy yet highly resistant to cracking and ...

At least 50 percent of the 20,000 students on the UC Santa Barbara campus commute by bicycle, which makes for a whole lot of bike tires running flat, developing holes, and ultimately being thrown away ...

As a public university that’s been on the cutting edge of environmental issues for decades, it may come as a surprise that the Associated Students Bike Shop at UC Santa Barbara has been throwing away ...

The Connecticut House has passed a bill aimed at fixing a problem with its new tire stewardship program, which launched last month. The program charges consumers a tire disposal fee that retailers ...

Need a new set of wheels? You could save some money under a bill approved by the Connecticut House of Representatives on Wednesday. It would require every tire store to join a statewide recycling ...

An illegal tire dump in Trumbull. By eliminating disposal fees for tires, officials hope the stewardship program will disincentivize illegal dumping. Credit: COURTESY/ HOUSATONIC RESOURCE RECOVERY ...

A disposal container for used tires at the Newtown Transfer Station. The town is one of four participating in the launch of the nation's first producer-led tire stewardship program. Credit: COURTESY/ ...