The mulch was mixed with an adhesive to make a mat underneath playground equipment. Peter Valente holds some of the finished shredded rubber from recycled tires at Windsor Rubber Processing in ...

One study that analyzed rubber mulch and rubber mats, published in the scientific journal Chemosphere in 2013, concluded that “Uses of recycled rubber tires, especially those targeting play ...

Good options include rubber mulch, wood mulch, sand, fine gravel or safety-tested rubber mat, which are more forgiving than grass and dirt are when a child falls, Nazario said. How deep you should ...

Of most value for gardeners -- perhaps inestimable value -- are rubber-mulch tree rings. These brown, circular, recycled-rubber mats, ranging from two to five feet wide, have a center hole that ...

Rubber mulch is made from recycled tires and does not decompose. It did not start as a gardening product; it found its niche as a bouncy, soft surface for children's playgrounds with a lower injury ...

Instead, my total materials cost was $950 delivered for the mulch, $80 for the shower mat, and approximately $80 for the stuff from Lowes (a tined rake, gravel, plastic lawn divider stuff, weed ...

Rubber mulch didn't start out as a gardening product. It found its niche as a bouncy, soft surface for children's playgrounds. Research has shown that if a kid fell onto rubber mulch from a jungle ...

Rubber mulch promotes recycling—and provides an excellent model for recycling all of those spent fuel rods piling up at nuclear plants. Unlike natural mulches, rubber mulch doesn't decompose, so it's ...