Brett Anderson scoops up a handful of tiny pieces of black rubber at Lancaster County’s Ecore Flooring. Some slip through his fingers and bounce back into a huge bin, blending into the pile.
They’re rubber remnants of worn-out truck tires, ready to be repurposed into flooring products. Every night, seven or eight truckloads of the recycled rubber nubs are dumped into bins, sorted by size.
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