Magnum's closed-loop recycling technology eliminates the greenhouse gases produced by old-fashioned recycling processes, removing the steel mesh and fiber from the scrap tires and converting them into purified high-grade tire crumb. The company has collaborated with Sekhar Research Innovations that has granted it exclusive North American rights to a unique activation and devulcanization process that imparts to recycled rubber the same elasticity and resilience as virgin rubber and allows for the creation of new custom compounds. The next step in the research process is to test the hypotheses. In this study independent test results validate that Magnum SRI's rubber-activated compounds possess all the properties of natural rubber compounds, meeting all technical and performance parameters needed for value-added applications. Magnum's entry into the market comes at a time when rubber manufacturers have been squeezed between recessionary forces and higher fuel and operating costs, hurting margins and driving up product prices.

The data was analyzed and the conclusion that was draw was that now, using custom formulated re-activated powder compounds, new truck tire, retread and motorcycle tire manufacturers can blend in an unprecedented proportion of recycled content of between eight and 25 per cent, depending on the performance specifications of the application. This considerable usage of recycled content results in substantial savings in raw material costs for manufacturers without any concession in performance, properties and safety.

The results of this study were communicated in this article which represents the last step in the research process. The conclusion that the researcher drew and communicated was that the devulcanization process could indeed add value to shredded rubber and make it into a useful product. Based upon the evidence from the research that the rubber-activated compounds possessed all the properties of natural rubber compounds, and met all technical and performance parameters needed for value-added applications this was...

It lacked any background research in to what else is going on in the field. This made it hard to validate the results of this study because there wasn't anything else presented to look at the results against. There was also a lack of discussion about what exactly the testing consisted of. This made it difficult to not only determine the validity of the testing but also its reliability as well.
It is always important to carry out and report good research because it is going to be looked upon for many years to come. There will always be people who come along after you have done your research and conduct research of their own. If your research is carried out and documented well it could very well be a stepping to stone for someone else to use to develop something even bigger and better in the future. Inventions are often based upon research that has been done previously and then built upon in the future. If one's research does not adhere to the criteria for good research then it might very well be deemed useless for others to take into consideration. This is why it is so very important to follow all of the research criteria when you are going to publish your findings because you never know who might be looking at them long after you have forgotten what you had set out to do in the first place.

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Curtis, Chad. (2010). Recycling Sidebar: Tire-to-Tire Recycling. Retrieved April 24, 2010, from Solid Waste & Recycling Web site:

http://www.solidwastemag.com/issues/story.aspx?aid=1000361670&type=Print%20Arch

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Steps of the Scientific Method. (2010). Retrieved April 24, 2010, from Science Buddies Web site:

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml