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Recycled tyres incorporated in Timberland footwear
(13/03/2009)

Currently there are more than 7 billion tyres sitting in landfills worldwide, leading to one of the largest and relatively unknown environmental epidemics. 1.2 billion tires are discarded globally every year. Most people aren’t aware that tyres take over 80 years to decompose, polluting water tables and providing breeding grounds for disease carrying insects like mosquitoes; and that the growing worldwide demand for rubber is resulting in pressure on fragile tropical ecosystems from the spre... [more]

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