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Rubber manufacturers, and especially the automobile industry, along with urban local bodies, recyclers, and society by large, are facing a major challenge in terms of reuse and/or valorization of the huge quantities of the  Was te  Rub ber, read as  WasRub . The  WasRub  being highly resistant to thermal, biological, chemical, and photochemical degradation, due to its cross-linked (vulcanized) structure, is a major threat to the ecosystem. Thus, the need of the hour is to devise novel strategies and methodologies that would facilitate bulk utilization of the  WasRub  by fulfilling the requirements associated with the sustainable development goals,  SDGs . In this context, efforts made by earlier researchers and technologists to address the efficacy of the schemes by which  WasRub  can be valorized are worth appreciating. However, being the case- and site- specific, these efforts (i) are limited and hence the findings cannot be generalized, (ii) lack insight into the grain-scale characteristics of  WasRub , and (iii) do not present the pros and cons of the pathways adopted for the valorization of  WasRub . Keeping this in view, a comprehensive and critical appraisal of the literature dealing with the valorization of  WasRub  for infrastructural and geoenvironmental applications was conducted, and a synthesis of what the problem is, why it persists, and what is the way forward have been discussed in this paper. Efforts have also been made to highlight the influence of (i) micro-mechanisms and (ii) the parameters, that control utilization of  WasRub  as a manmade resource for attaining  SDGs  without any apprehension(s).

Current practices and the way forward in waste rubber utilization for infrastructural and geoenvironmental engineering applications