A material made greener is tires like car tires, tires for 4-wheelers. These tires are usually made out of rubber. Most of the time when they are worn down as much as they can be they are broken down many people just leave them somewhere to eventually breakdown from natural causes.
When the tires are just left out in the woods they could potentially start a fire because when the materials they are made out of heats up before it is used, which could simply be if it's stored somewhere that gets very hot or if it's left out in the sun for a long time. Since the tires have carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, butadiene, and styrene that react and cause the tire to burn when it get really hot.
Now instead of letting the tires sit out in the woods whole they get broken down into little pieces and recycled to be used to make other products. Car tires, that used to be made out of completely rubber are now being made out of stearic acid from animals, some other tires are even using natural rubber that hasn't been treated so it doesn't have any of the chemicals that harm the environment through a chemical reaction known as vulcanization.
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