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In 2017, REDISA was unlawfully removed, a finding confirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2019. Yet, it was never reinstated. Responsibility instead shifted to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s Waste Management Bureau. The Bureau has for eight years consistently failed to meet its tyre diversion targets. In the past few months, the Bureau has gone to tender to establish a million square metres of waste tyre depot space – enough to store over a million tonnes of waste tyres – and to sell off some R100 million worth of tyre recycling equipment that it bought but could not put to use. This is not management, it is controlled dumping. The consequences have been stark: job losses, dangerously overcrowded depots that pose real fire risks, discarded tyres contaminating groundwater, along with widespread illegal burning that releases toxic fumes

AI can suggest which parameters may matter. It cannot run ash, volatiles, BET, TGA, GC-MS, sample-conditioning protocols, or application testing. It cannot diagnose batch inconsistency, process instability, contamination, or specification gaps. For customers, investors, and offtakers, this distinction is critical.

The regulation is intended to ensure that new vehicles are designed and produced in ways that support reuse, recycling and recovery, with the aim of making the automotive sector more circular and sustainable.

The event will bring together members of the artificial turf industry for three days of networking, technical learning and collaboration. Under the theme Where the Industry Aligns, the conference will focus on shared challenges, best practices and coordinated strategies related to safe, sustainable and accessible playing surfaces.

The project includes two main workstreams. These focus on developing technologies to produce premium recycled feedstock from waste tires and establishing tire manufacturing technologies that use sustainable materials. Hankook Tire said the project expands its existing Tire-to-Tire circular economy activities, which began with the launch of an industry-led consortium in Korea in 2023.

ommittee D36 presented awards to John Bailey, Ludovic Moulin, Joseph Hallett, Jorge Lacayo and Pieter ter Haar. The awards recognized their work, technical expertise and participation in the standards development process for recovered carbon black, also known as rCB, and related materials such as tire pyrolysis oil.

The report focuses on the willingness to act on long-term beliefs in a mature industry that is preparing for its next stage of development. It presents tire recycling as a sector where new perspectives can help identify value in materials that are often seen as limited or difficult to use.

Tire recyclers in Europe are calling on EU policymakers to introduce ecodesign requirements that improve tire recyclability, support demand for recycled rubber and increase transparency across the value chain. The proposals were outlined by Recycling Europe Tyres in a position paper published on May 18, as the EU prepares future product rules under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation.

The latest Top 10 Elastomers for Sustainability ranking has added three new projects focused on improving the environmental profile of the rubber, elastomers and tire industries. The Elastomers for Sustainability, or E4S, ranking tracks materials-science and related developments that could support sustainability, recycling and circular economy goals in the global rubber sector.