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Fullerton Fund Management announced that its Fullerton Carbon Action Fund has completed an investment in PyroEnergie, Thailand’s leading end-of-life tyre (ELT) recycler. This marks the Fund’s second deployment and its first investment in Southeast Asia, reinforcing its strategy of backing established, mid-market leaders that combine scalable decarbonisation impact with strong financial fundamentals.

International Airlines Group (IAG) has invested in Wastefront, a leading tyre-to-fuel company, who plan to turn used tyres into Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The SAF will be made by converting waste tyres into tyre derived oil, which is then refined into road fuels and SAF. The SAF produced is expected to give life cycle carbon emission savings over 80% versus fossil fuels.

A Michigan road project has used more than 7,000 scrap tires in rubber-modified asphalt to pave a 0.8-mile section of Ellsworth Road in Pittsfield Township, later earning national recognition for green construction. The project was carried out in Washtenaw County through a partnership involving the Washtenaw County Road Commission, Michigan Technological University and the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. Cadillac Asphalt paved the section between the bridge over I-94 and Carpenter Road using asphalt containing ground tire rubber. In June 2026, EGLE said the project received the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s 2025 Quality in Construction Award in the Green Category, recognizing its use of recycled tire materials in pavement and its contribution to sustainable infrastructure.

In Kuwait, the Salmi tire stockpile is referred to as a constant source of fires and air pollution. As part of efforts to reduce and promote the end-of-life tire recycling in Kuwait, the Green Rubber Recycling company, which was established in 2013, creates a variety of products which utilize recycled tire rubber. Kuwait Times recently published an article about the Green Rubber Recycling highlighting company’s achievements. “Located in Amghara area, about 30 kilometers from Kuwait City, the tire recycling factory makes 100% recycled rubber tiling in brick or tile format for all types of locations including children’s play places, gyms, sports arenas as well as filling for gardens, farms and elsewhere,” the magazine writes.

Birla Carbon, one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black solutions, today released its 10th annual sustainability report titled – On the Road to Net Zero. The 2022 report focuses on its net zero aspiration by 2050, the significant progress with Continua™ Sustainable Carbonaceous Materials (SCM), and the role of Birla Carbon in contributing to a decade of sustainability engagement and accomplishment. The online report is available at –  www.sustainability.birlacarbon.com

Faced with millions of end-of-life tyres in landfill or openly dumped, the Gulf States are developing individual strategies to deal with the waste stream including a growing interest in pyrolysis… The meeting was kicked off by Committee Chairman Max Craipeau of Greencore Resources in China who wondered if “there’s ever been a better time” for tyre recycling. Investors were taking a much closer interest in the sector, especially because of the increasing concern from customers for greater sustainability. “Circularity is finally a reality for the tyre and rubber industry,” he said, referring to chemical recycling such as pyrolysis. “We have always been the poor relative in the recycling industry – because for a long time there was no circularity, as with metals which can be recycled infinitely. “Materials that weren’t necessarily sustainable from a chemical recycling point of view are becoming more and more sustainable thanks to growing demand.”

The CEOs of 10 leading tire manufacturers gathered to confirm a two-year Tire Industry Project (TIP) workplan focused on research and action for sustainability in the tire lifecycle, including tire-emission research and end-of-life tire management. TIP’s workplan for 2024 and 2025 builds on its established program of scientific research with enhanced action and stakeholder engagement across projects relevant to environmental, social and governance (ESG) in the tire sector.

Writing to the Minister for Waste and Recycling, Mary Creagh MP, the TRA praised the minister for the action she instigated last year after it had been demonstrated that enforcement activity on end-of-life-tyre (ELT) exports was deficient. Illegally imported waste tyres from Britain were acknowledged to be a core source for highly polluting batch pyrolysis plants in India.

The UK Environment Agency has reported progress in its enhanced monitoring of waste tire exports from England, while warning that significant compliance gaps remain. According to an August 2026 update covering information notices issued between October 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026, the regulator had received details of 10,822 waste tire shipments by August 3. Of the 5,819 shipments that had reached the 16-week deadline for evidence confirming arrival at their intended destination, 3,837 shipments, or 62.12%, were recorded as fully or partially compliant, while 1,091 shipments, or 17.66%, were classified as non-compliant. Full compliance increased from 7.25% in early May to 15.67% by August 3. The Environment Agency has now moved exporters onto an interim compliance system ahead of digital waste tracking planned for 2027, while enforcement against operators with persistently poor performance has included fixed penalties, prohibition notices and formal warnings.