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priesty · 23 Jul 2006, 11:54 AM

Raw rubber is a naturally occuring addition polymer. It is obtained by collecting sap from the rubber tree. It is the polymer of 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (isoprene)

So from this I gather that its non renewable. However, to overcome these issues that have started polymerising butadience and styrene to form synthetic rubber which is a renewable resource I believe.

Perhaps if you give us the URLs of those sites that disagree?

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priesty formerly wm_abusef HSC: 2006 Gender: Male Location: so's your face Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 850 Last Activity: 20 Jul 2009, 3:20 PM	Re: Natural Rubber - Non-Renewable? Raw rubber is a naturally occuring addition polymer. It is obtained by collecting sap from the rubber tree. It is the polymer of 2-methyl-1,3-butadiene (isoprene) So from this I gather that its non renewable. However, to overcome these issues that have started polymerising butadience and styrene to form synthetic rubber which is a renewable resource I believe. Perhaps if you give us the URLs of those sites that disagree? __________________ 2006 BOS BigBlogger Winner! NSW HSC UAI 98.35 3rd in IPT 2009 BSc (Adv) III @ USyd Majors in Advanced Physiology & Neuroscience