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One of the biggest tire recycling companies in the United States – Liberty Tire Recycling – reports about the recent advances in its environmental strategy. Accelerating Environmental Stewardship is the pillar of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy at Liberty who believes it made a great progress to achieving its environmental goals. In the past months, Liberty spoke about how its products and services divert tires from landfill and offset GHG emissions. But Liberty's commitment to Accelerating Environmental Stewardship extends beyond its offerings — it informs all our decisions and day-to-day operations, the company says.

TNU (Tratamiento Neumáticos Usados) – a Spanish EPR agency for end-of-life tires – explains with its new informative campaign "Did you know that...?" the wide and innovative applications offered by the recycling of end-of-life tires. The recent TNU’s article emphasizes the importance of collecting and recycling used tires instead of leaving them in nature, as they take 1,000 years to decompose. The most environmentally friendly option is to reuse the tires for manufacturing new ones. If that is not possible, recycling plants extract and separate the different components of the tires, such as rubber, textile fiber, and steel, for recovery and repurposing.

Bekaert – a Belgium-based company that specializes in the transformation and coating of steel wire, with operations spanning 45 countries – has been paving the way for tire reinforcement with high recycled content that contributes to the circular economy. High recycled content reduces the CO2 footprint of the company’s product by about 50%. As a next milestone on its sustainability journey, Bekaert announced that it has obtained its first third-party certificates for its tire reinforcement with high recycled steel content. Such certification helps meet the rising demand of its customers and end markets and address a critical challenge in the industry.

Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) is featured in the Network Ten’s Planet Shapers TV series. The episode dived into Australia’s end-of-life tyre story, providing a snapshot of the current state of play for tyre recovery in Australia, what is happening onshore right now and the road ahead to achieving better and more sustainable outcomes for country’s end-of-life tyres. The rubber from end-of-life tyres can be a valuable material. Australian labs and manufacturing are producing fantastic innovations with materials derived from used tyres including:

The Recycled Rubber Coalition in Washington unveiled a white paper "An Unexpected Electric Vehicle Environmental Problem With Common Sense Solutions". It examines how the growing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) will lead to a surge in scrap tires and proposes practical recycling solutions. Comprising organizations and companies in rubber recycling, the coalition stresses the urgent need for effective government policies to support the expansion of recycled rubber markets.

Tons of waste tires thrown on the streets of Manaus (AM) and on the outskirts of the city, already in the Amazon Forest area – accumulating standing water and serving as a breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito – will be collected and transported by containers to a recycling plant located in the Metropolitan Region. from Curitiba (PR).

Tire Stewardship BC – a not-for-profit group dedicated to the collection and recycling of scrap tires in British Columbia – announced that it will provide an annual grant of $30,000 to Ocean Legacy Foundation (OLF) for a period of five years. This funding will support OLF in their efforts to conduct clean-up expeditions for scrap tires across British Columbia, with the aim of diverting waste from landfills and promoting circularity in the waste sector.

With an estimated 150,000 tons of waste tires produced annually in Bahia (Argentina), the province seems to lack a solution to the problem of end-of-life tires. The impact of the waste tyres is due to several factors, among which are their composition since they contain 80% rubber, 15% steel and 5% textile fibre, and compounds that take thousands of years to degrade.

Wastefront AS, the Norwegian waste tire recycling company, has announced a strategic partnership with innovative EV tire company ENSO, which will see ENSO incorporate Wastefront’s recycled carbon black (rCB) in its tires from 2024.