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This is an expert overview on the topic of tyre recycling. It summarises current practices and the factors that have contributed to their growth and efficacy as viable, economically and environmentally sound methods of dealing with post-consumer tyres. There are around 1 billion tyres produced each year across the globe. It is estimated that for every tyre sold another joins the waste stream. There are some simple options such as retreading or shipping to countries with less stringent tread requirements, but this does not solve the problem. Tyres have been identified as a priority waste stream

Rubber. --- Rubber --- Tires --- Rubber, Reclaimed. --- Reclaimed rubber --- Rubber industry and trade --- Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Rubber, Reclaimed --- Caoutchouc --- Ebonite --- Gum elastic --- India rubber --- Vulcanite --- Latex --- Non-timber forest products --- Elastomers --- Gutta-percha --- Recycling. --- Reclaiming --- Recycling

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Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas-from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOWFor three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?

Christmas --- History. --- biblical history. --- biographical. --- biography. --- birth of jesus. --- christmas history. --- christmas songs. --- christmas traditions. --- faith and belief. --- family. --- gift giving. --- history of christianity. --- holiday season. --- intriguing stories. --- life lessons. --- memoir. --- modern consumerism. --- pre-christian roots. --- reclaiming the joy. --- reindeer. --- santa. --- spirituality. --- story of christmas. --- tour through history. --- uplifting stories.

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An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked with motor vehicles, many of them private automobiles. In this book, Govind Gopakumar examines this shift, analyzing the phenomenon of automobility in Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), a rapidly growing city of about ten million people in southern India. He finds that the advent of automobility in Bengaluru has privileged the mobility needs of the elite while marginalizing those of the rest of the population. Gopakumar connects Bengaluru's burgeoning automobility to the city's history and to the spatial, technological, and social interventions of a variety of urban actors. Automobility becomes a juggernaut, threatening to reorder the city to enhance automotive travel. He discusses the evolution of congestion and urban change in Bengaluru; the "regimes of congestion" that emerge to address the issue; an "infrastructurescape" that shapes the mobile behavior of all residents but is largely governed by the privileged; and the enfranchisement of an "automotive citizenship" (and the disenfranchisement of non-automobile-using publics). Gopakumar also finds that automobility in Bengaluru faces ongoing challenges from such diverse sources as waste flows, popular religiosity, and political leadership. These challenges, however, introduce messiness without upsetting automobility. He therefore calls for efforts to displace automobility that are grounded in reordering the mobility regime, relandscaping the city and its infrastructures, and reclaiming streets for other uses.

Transportation, Automotive --- Automobiles --- Traffic congestion --- Social aspects --- History. --- Congested traffic --- Congestion, Traffic --- Gridlock (Traffic flow) --- Jams, Traffic --- Reduction of traffic congestion --- Traffic jams --- Traffic flow --- Autos (Automobiles) --- Cars (Automobiles) --- Gasoline automobiles --- Motorcars (Automobiles) --- Motor vehicles --- Automotive transportation --- Highway transportation --- Motor carriers --- Motor transportation --- Road transportation --- Transportation --- Bengaluru --- Bangalore --- India --- streets --- mobility --- justice --- urban --- congestion --- politics --- technopolitical --- constellation --- regime --- infrastructurescape --- citizenship --- shabby automobility --- performativity --- affordance --- Global South --- case study --- twenty-first century --- history --- longue durée --- motorization --- cars --- transport --- roads --- cities --- environment --- infrastructure --- traffic --- cityscape --- landscape --- Karnataka --- Mysore kingdom --- South Asia --- Asia --- vehicles --- scapes --- messy --- dystopia --- instrumentality --- discourse --- privilege --- power --- disenfranchising --- unlocking --- reclaiming --- colonialism --- post-colonial --- affordability --- Urban transportation policy --- City planning --- Sustainable urban development --- Environmentally sustainable urban development --- Sustainable development --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- State and urban transportation --- Urban transportation --- Urban transportation and state --- Transportation and state --- Government policy --- Management