Textile Fibres from Recycled Tyres

Today textiles hold an important place in our daily life. Textile is not only just beautiful designer goods, bed or tablecloth. Textile has become an integral, if not reinforcing part of rockets, airplanes, cars, skis, sailing boats, kayaks, golf and baseball bats, tyres, heart muscles, blood vessels and new architectural miracles. If one bears in mind exponential population growth and an increase in living standards, it is clear that demand for textile raw materials is growing enormously and that producers of textile fibres are not able to satisfy the need for the adequate textile raw materials in the traditional way. That is why in the area of textile, significant efforts are put in research and development of new, preferably renewable textile raw materials, as well as on new and more comprehensive textile recycling processes and/or recycling of new 21st century materials that contain textiles in its structure or, are based on the textiles such as fibre- reinforced composites. One of such products, which in its structure contains significant amounts of high- performance fibres and may be recyclable are discarded tyres from different transport vehicles. How to get fibrous material from waste vehicles tyres, some of the qualitative characteristics of the obtained recycled textile fibres and recommendation for their reuse are presented in this paper.