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Recycled Tyres Improve Music Quality | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

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Recycled Tyres Improve Music Quality | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

The modernisation of the Sale Gavazzeni at the Toscanini Auditorium in Parma, Italy, has seen the sound quality of the hall improved thanss t the use of tyre derived sound insylation panels.

The Superintendent of the Toscanini Foundation, Maestro Ferrari said, “we have shown that in Italy it is possible to create beautiful, useful, and sustainable works both environmentally and economically”
Ecopneus, Genesis and Studio A + CArchitettura and Città carried out the important acoustic intervention in the Sala Gavazzeni, through the insertion of sound-absorbing panels from recycled rubber.
Ferrari commented, “The music interacts with the environment in which it is produced and it is integrated, but it does not tolerate interference: it is necessary that every environment from an acoustic point of view constitutes a closed system. If this is true for an auditorium, it is even more in the case of a rehearsal room, where the conductor must be able to grasp every little detail of what happens in the orchestral complex while he rehearses.

“From the experience of our acoustic architects and engineers, it turned out that insulation with the recycled rubber panels would have given a precise and perfect answer to our needs,” said the Superintendent of the Toscanini Foundation. “And from the experience of these initial months of operation of the rehearsal room, we can say that the expectations have been met: we have shown that it is possible to create beautiful, useful and sustainable works, both environmentally and economically”.
The characteristics of elasticity, resistance and sound absorption make tyre rubber an excellent material for limiting the transmission of noise and vibrations in buildings. The granule and the rubber powder obtained from ELTs, are the materials most commonly used in the building sector. Linked with polyurethanes or other thermoplastic materials they constitute real “building blocks” of high-performance elements for soundproofing and vibration damping.

Enviro Signs MoU with US Tyre Recycling Company

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Enviro Signs MoU with US Tyre Recycling Company

Scandinavian Enviro Systems AB (Enviro) has signed an MoU with Treadcraft Limited to establish a new recycling plant in the city of Buffalo, New York, USA. The agreement is valid for a period of 6 months and applies to a recycling plant of minimum 30,000 tonnes of end-of-life tyres per year.

The project has great support from both the State of New York and the city of Buffalo. The ambition is to start the project at the end of this year, says Thomas Sörensson, CEO of Enviro.

The contracting party Treadcraft Limited, located in Wainfleet, Ontario, Canada, was incorporated in 2007 and is today active on the North American market.

Terry Gilmore, President of Treadcraft Limited, says the following:

“The collaboration will produce a full-scale facility, capable of processing a minimum of 30,000 tons of scrap tire material annually, is to be located in the Buffalo, New York area, close to international transportation routes for the ease of materials transportation to and from the facility.

“Treadcraft is pleased to partner with Scandinavian Enviro Systems of Sweden and their process to produce valuable recycled carbon black for industry from this waste tire material. Treadcraft is working closely with large industrial companies, in several sectors, to introduce the economic and environmental benefits of recycled carbon black produced by the Scandinavian Enviro Systems‘ process.

“The project has great support from the state, regional, and local officials in the Buffalo Niagara Region (New York) who believe the Scandinavian Enviro Systems business fits with their long-term plan to reform their heavy industrial past with the new “green” industries of the future.”

JAX Tyres – Tyre Stewardship Australia Gets a Boost

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JAX Tyres – Tyre Stewardship Australia Gets a Boost

Australian JAX tyres with 84 retailers has signed up with TSA to ensure that the company does its best to promote tyre recycling in Australia.

JAX Tyres to Help Support Public Education and Market Development Efforts of the TSA.

It joins a host of other retail chains in accreditation. These include Beaurepaires, Bob Jane T-Marts, Bridgestone Service Centres and Bridgestone Select stores, K-mart Tyre & Auto Service, Goodyear Auto Centres, Tyres & More, Tyrepower, TyrePlus and selected Continental and independent retail outlets.

1500 tyre stores nationwide are currently TSA accredited.

Dale Gilson, TSA, CEO, said there were several consumer options available within the scheme.

“The JAX Tyres decision to join the nationwide list of accredited retailers is both a welcome development and an indication that the Australian tyre retail sector is comprehensively behind the efforts to ensure we deal with the environmental challenge of end-of-life tyres,” he said.

Jeff Board, JAX Quickfit, CEO, said that becoming part of the TSA accreditation scheme was a step in the direction of ensuring all of its future operations were environmentally sustainable.

“We have continually reviewed operations to ensure the most environmentally sensitive processes and policies possible and we look forward to working with TSA on further addressing the challenge of managing the Australian waste tyre challenge,” he said.

The ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) recently granted the TSA a further six-year authorisation for the Tyre Stewardship Scheme.

SIGNUS to Combat Rising Fraud

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SIGNUS to Combat Rising Fraud

Spanish Tyre EPR scheme SIGNUS has confirmed that it is seeing year on year increases in undeclared tyres.

SIGNUS to Step up Controls on Tyre Collections to Combat Fraud

In the past year these undeclared tyres accounted for around 18 per cent of total tyre collections by SIGNUS: The equivalent of practically 5 million passenger tyres, or a total of 10 weeks of collection, generating an important extra cost in the management of the system.

The legal obligation of any management system is to manage only the same number of tyres that its producers put on the replacement market. This is an obligation that SIGNUS exceeded until now, generating an imbalance in its economic operation to the detriment mainly of the consumer.

In order to alleviate this fraud to the consumer, SIGNUS is increasing the control of tyre collections with measures that will be applied gradually and that are summarised in the following:

– Universal collection from the workshops of the associated producers.
– Specific controls at the workshops.
– Review requests for free collection to workshops that violate the “Conditions for the free collection of used tyres“, regarding storage, physical condition, or absence of classification, whose acceptance is mandatory in each collection request.
– They will not consider collection requests from workshops that buy from producers who do not declare the tyres they put on the replacement market.

These measures will complement those already applied.

With these measures, as well as with the close collaboration with the Nature Protection Service of the Civil Guard (Seprona), it is intended to pursue those unfair and fraudulent practices in order not only to comply with the current legislation, but to protect the environment.

Italian Coast Guard Partner with EcoTyre

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Italian Coast Guard Partner with EcoTyre

The Porto Salvo dock in Gaeta, Italy, was the base for a recent partnership project between EcoTyre and the Italian Coast Guard to clear the coastline of discarded tyres for World Ocean Day.

Initiative of EcoTyre to Clean up Coastline Blighted by Tyres

The initiative promoted by EcoTyre, a Consortium that at national level is responsible for the proper management of end of life tyres, and the Marevivo Association, was organised in partnership with the Coast Guard of Gaeta. The project, also sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment and by Federparchi-Europarc.

The event that took place on the fishing quay and allowed the MareVivo Association, represented by Federico Di Penta, to explain to the students of the Caboto Nautical Institute and to the students of the ITS G. Caboto Foundation the serious damage to the marine environment caused by carelessness of waste disposal. The divers of local diving teams, assisted by the coast guards of Gaeta, provided a tyre recovery service for tyres dumped in the local sea area.

Tyres to Roads on Prince Edward Island | Tyre Chip

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Tyres to Roads on Prince Edward Island | Tyre Chip

Tyre chip is to be used to provide drainage on unpaved Prince Edward Island roads that turn muddy when wet. 

Handy Use for Tyre Chip on Prince Edward Island Roads, Although Debate as to Which Size is Suitable

A similar project was carried out about 10 years ago when the Canadian province used chipped tyres on roads, but Stephen Yeo, chief engineer for the Department of Transportation, says those 20-25 centimetre chunks were too big to be effective.

This time, the pieces are smaller, about five centimetres, which he says should work better.

“We’ll put a foot thick of the shredded tyres down and sandstone over the top and see how they perform,” he said.

“It should create a good drainage system in the roadbed itself for getting rid of moisture – if it works, that’ll be a bonus for recycling these tyres.”​

Transportation Department engineer Stephen Yeo says the tyres should help roads to dry up quicker, moving water to the ditches instead of pooling on roadways.

“If this works out, and dries up the road a lot quicker, and you’re able to maintain traffic on it better, we’d certainly look at doing this to a number of roads every year,” he said.

If successful, the tyres could be used in place of “expensive gravel” from the mainland, Yeo said. It will also mean fewer tyres to be trucked off the Island or thrown in the waste.

The Department of Environment has been consulted, Yeo said, and concluded that there are no environmental concerns. ​

New Zealand Tyre Sector Presses Government

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New Zealand Tyre Sector Presses Government

More than 5 million tyres are thrown away each year in New Zealand and the tyre industry wants Government help in getting a new recycling scheme going.

New Zealand Tyre Industry Insiders Looking for Government Support to Kickstart New Tyre Recycling Programme

With 125,000 old, worn-out tyres collected in a year, one farm in north Canterbury has become the tyre dump of South Island.

Farm manager Angelique Hyde leased the land to a tyre collector, who is slowly sending them overseas for recycling.

Marty Hoffart of the Zero Waste Network says there are no rules about where tyres can be dumped.

“It’s a totally unregulated industry, which means anyone can go and get a truck and go and pick up tyres from a tyre shop and take them anywhere and dump them.”

Industry group Tyrewise, backed by New Zealand’s biggest tyre importer, Bridgestone, is calling on the Ministry for the Environment to declare tyres a “priority product”.

“We’re taking away the motivation for tyres to go to landfill, the motivation for them to be dumped in streams or the end of streets,” Bridgestone director of New Zealand business John Staples says.

This would give the Government the ability to put a recycling fee on every tyre it imports – replacing the fee consumers pay at tyre shops and creating a multimillion-dollar fund to pay for collection and recycling.

The decision will now be made by the Government, but every day it waits thousands of tyres will continue to pile up.

The Senegal Way of Tyre Recycling | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

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The Senegal Way of Tyre Recycling | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

In Senegal, Malick Ngaydé is one of those young people who knows how to do something with his hands. He recycles used tyres to make furniture. When asked why tyres were chosen as a material, Malick answered, “I am always looking for possible means of recycling.”

Ngaydé Making Strides to Improve Recycling in Senegal with Innovations for the Home

In the manufacture of furniture, the tyres are first washed, before being repaired. Then they are disinfected, processed and painted. To the public, Malick is calling for easier tyre recycling because he says he can build an entire suite in just 24 hours. Better still, the man offers a lifetime guarantee on its manufacture.

Since February 2018, Malick has been creating furniture, which he sells to art lovers.

“People like it and say it’s beautiful, but we want every citizen to take it to reduce the used tyres that are everywhere in the country. ”

To the young people of Kayar, a small coastal town, Malick kindly offered free training for tyre recycling. In total, 45 of them benefited from this teaching.

“Before coming into contact with them, some of these people were thinking about illegal immigration, but today we have given these young people a chance to stay here and not risk their lives at sea. We have taught these young people how to start a business. ”

Of course, creating tyre furniture is not unique to Senegal, and it will never be the solution to tyre recycling, but activities such as this serve a purpose and whilst we discuss size reduction, rubberised asphalt, pyrolysis and devulcanisation, credit must go to those around the world who take that first step in reusing tyres in their local community.

In this case, it is a small step in addressing the tyre problem, but also the immigration problem. Malick Ngaydé is to be commended for his efforts.

Is Fast Pyrolysis of Tyres a Solution?

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Is Fast Pyrolysis of Tyres a Solution?

Dr. Wilma Dierkes , of the University of Twente has spoken at conferences and seminars about fast pyrolysis of tyres. The theory is that a “flash” process can be used to bring abut the reduction of tyres, or other wastes, in a short time with a lower energy cost than conventional pyrolysis.

Continental and the University of Twente Collaborate to Improve Pyrolysis Process

Now, Continental is working with the University of Twente to develop the process, which could create the opportunity for rCB to be reused in new tyres

The University of Twente and Continental are eager to push the boundaries of end-of-life tyre recycling to achieve a more sustainable solution. The novel approach may also reduce a shortage of carbon black experienced by U.S. tyre producers.

The research initiative is co-funded by the Dutch Materials Innovations Institute. Project leader Professor Gerrit Brem, from the university’s thermal engineering department, says the ‘breakthrough’ is the result of combining the best from the worlds of energy technology and materials engineering.

According to Dr Wilma Dierkes of the Elastomer Technology & Engineering department: ‘A successful development means that the innovative pyrolysis process contributes to a high percentage of recycled tyres and other rubber materials in cradle-to-cradle cycles for sustainable car tyres.’

She points out that the fast pyrolysis technique is also capable of converting other waste flows into high-quality materials. Examples include: fuels and minerals from paper sludge; carbon fibres from transport and industrial composite waste; or glass fibres from disassembled boats or wind turbines.

Macedonia Invests in Tyre Recycling

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Macedonia Invests in Tyre Recycling

Macedonia’s Rubber Waste Management (RWM) is investing EUR 8.5 million in a new tyre recycling plant in Zelino, according to the government.

Major Investment in Recycling from Rubber Waste Management (RWM)

The investment will create 600 jobs, according to a government a statement following a visit by prime minister Zoran Zaev to the construction site in Zelino, in north-western Macedonia. RWM’s recycling plant will spread across 4,500 square metres.

The factory will recycle tyres into rubber materials which can be used in the construction of motorways or sports facilities.

RWM also plans to build an additional two factories in Zelino in the future, according to the statement.

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