Price of Rubber

[mikep]

@Jeff Klass

Window cleaning rubber is not made from rubber trees. there is a percentage in every rubber that is natural rubber, but that is then blended with synthetic rubber(petroleum product) elastomers m(petroleum product) and carbon (that’s why it leaves black marks on white walls - try that with Sorbo rubber (lower carbon content) or silicone rubber (no petro chemicals) and you’ll see.

Cheaper rubber has a higher carbon content, which is part of the reason it’s cheaper.

Factor in the aforementioned energy to harvest, blend, press, cut & package it, and the inevitable “it’s going to be on at least ONE truck” into the equation, and yes, when crude goes up, so does rubber.

The 4 dollar rubber days are coming, and I think a large rubber recycling effort will be initiated by someone as well.

So it’s better quality rubber when their is less rubber in the “rubber”?