Engineering Rubber and Plastics in Use

  Recycling of Silicone Rubber: Past, Present and Future: Attaining Sustainability Ever since the starting of processing of Silicone Rubber we were curious about the recycling and reuse of Silicone rubber produced in the process as nonconformance, rejections, trial material etc., When the volumes gone up the leftover pieces, non-confirmed parts, line rejections also had gone up. This created a necessity for introduction of recycling or reuse of silicone rubber profiles, Molded parts, cured rubber pieces from extruder. As Silicone Rubber is resistant to weathering, ozone, ultraviolet etc. due to its strong silicone bonds it cannot be broken on normal heat and temperature(You can read  here  for more details). Even above 250 degree Celsius makes it brittle, and on heating above that it gets converted to silicon oxide along with emitted gases of Carbon dioxide and others. The disposal of silicone can be achieved by simply burning it or heating it at higher temperatures but i...