Home » From weeds to wheels: Goodyear hopes to make rubber out of dandelion. News Technology WEST From weeds to wheels: Goodyear hopes to make rubber out of dandelion. 04/13/22 6:03 AM By Noah Wicks.

Bridgestone Americas, a subsidiary of Bridgestone in Japan, will use a federal grant to develop a pilot plant to research making butadiene, a component of synthetic rubber, out of ethanol.