Cade Metz of Wired Photo: Supplied
There's a rubber rush happening in the USA. Guayule is a shrub that produces natural rubber. Traditionally the industry's been controlled by Asian countries growing the hevea rubber tree, but now the US is hoping to start domestic production of guayule to ensure a future supply of rubber.
Cade Metz of Wired reports on this growing industry.
The flowering shrub Parthenium argentatum, commonly known as the guayule Photo: Public Domain
