Positive Impacts on the Environment- Tires and such can be shredded and recycled to make other products
Negative Impacts on the Environment
- Soot is produced to help produce rubber, and this black carbon particle contributes to global warming
- About 265 million tires are thrown out each year
- Shoe soles contribute to the amount of chemicals and metals washed away in the environment
Positive Impacts on Human Health
- Provides comfort for feet (shoe soles) and stability while walking (grip)
- Used in mattresses (helps us sleep)
- Yearly, a million deaths worldwide, are caused by airborne particle pollution (soot is one airborne particle released as a result of making rubber)
- Shoe soles contain toxic substances
Positive Impacts on Society- Easier to make rubber, so easier to make more rubber products
- Can be mixed with many colours and such to create many different products
- Synthetic rubber can consist of a mixture of many different chemicals, therefore allowing the product to have a variety of different properties
Negative Impacts on Society
- Society depends more on synthetic rubber, rather than natural
