Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for automobiles, commercial trucks, light trucks, motorcycles, SUVs, race cars, airplanes, farm equipment and heavy earth-mover machinery. It also produced bicycle tires from its founding until 1976. As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top four tire manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France) and Continental (Germany). The company was named after American Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they
Waste tires Program is the third initiated bi-national agreement that aimed to protect the public health and environment that was in the shared region in-between the U.S. and Mexico border. This program was initiated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Mexico's Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT). In the updated US-Mexico Border 2020 Program, it addresses that one of the challenges it faces is the waste-tire management problem that has occurred over the past. Waste tires Waste or Scrap tires, also known as End-of-Life Tires (ELT), are used rubber tires that because of their abrasion state ("tire