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A tire landfill in Montana owned by Michael and Magdalena Adkins is expecting an Environmental Impact Statement soon that may allow their facility in Paradise Valley to store 280,000 tons of scrap tires and function for two decades. This is not the first time the Adkins make an effort to introduce a facility of this kind; some years ago, they received the license from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for similar project, but it was put on pause in court as the judge ruled that DEQ had to make a more careful environmental evaluation. It is anticipated that this year’s impact statement would consider more environmental details.

TNU (Tratamiento Neumáticos Usados) – a Spanish EPR agency for end-of-life tires – states that to manufacture a new tire, 1,950 litres of water are needed and only 878 litres for a retreaded tire, saving 45% of water. TNU issued a press release to acknowledge World Water Day on March 22, a date that seeks to raise awareness about the water crisis that our planet is suffering and that has led to droughts around the world. In addition, it also aims to remind us of the need for millions of people to access drinking water. Between 2,000 and 3,000 million people suffer from water scarcity in the world, a problem that will worsen in the coming decades, especially in cities, according to UN data.

Precimeca is a recognized French manufacturer of shredders founded in 1975 who specializes in tire recycling equipment since the 1990’s. Active member of the French and European Standardization Committees (AFNOR and CEN), Precimeca designs tire shredders and raspers tailored for specific customers’ requirements.

A Hungarian city of Zalaegerszeg in the Zala region will see the construction of a new rubber bitumen plant capable of recycling 20,000 tons of scrap tires annually; the facility is expected to become operative next year. The company behind the plant construction is the local energy and chemical company MOL. Moreover, the development is possible thanks to a huge investment allocated by MOL; at the same time, the State Enterprise Investment Support Program also provided partial funding to the initiative. In total, the sum of investment is estimated at 3 billion Hungarian Forint.

On the subject of tire waste and issues surrounding Off The Road (OTR) tire recycling, a company in the United States is developing machines to tackle these problems one slice at a time. These behemoth tires are piling up in mining operations across the globe and are increasingly at the forefront of tire waste management discussions. Eagle International builds machines that process all sizes of tires, from ATV tires all the way up to 59/80R63. According to the company, the crown jewel of the Eagle line of equipment is the OTR Downsizing System.

Bosnia and Herzegovina‘s Minister of Communal Economy, Infrastructure, Spatial Planning, Construction and Environmental Protection, Almir Bečarević, presented a permit for waste management for the processing and recycling of end-of-life tires to Zlatko Sejmenović, the director of material recovery company NEGRO CROWN d.o.o. Sarajevo. This gives NEGRO CROWN the opportunity to establish a tire recycling plant in the canton of Sarajevo.

Global leading tire company Hankook Tire & Technology (Hankook Tire) hosted the official kick-off meeting for the ’Tire-to-Tire Circular Economy Model’ consortium on November 1 in Daejeon, South Korea. Held at the Hankook Technodome, the event marked the start of the consortium’s efforts to create the business model for the circular economy of end-of-life tires in Korea.

U.S. state of Kentucky has been handling scrap tires by establishing the Waste Tire Trust Fund that gets its money from $2 fees imposed on each new tire when it is purchased. Thanks to the fund, the state manages five million of waste tires each year sending them to Champlin Tire Recycling in Kansas where the waste is transformed into valuable ADA-accessible products. They are later applied in playgrounds and trails construction, as well as in landscaping projects.

Tire Business magazine reports that internationally known recovered carbon black (rCB) supplier Pyrolyx A.G. has made a series of moves to build up its still nascent U.S. operations ahead of moving its headquarters to facilities under construction in Terre Haute, Indiana. In the U.S., Pyrolyx said it has secured additional debt funding of $4.5 million and agreed to buy the assets of tire recycling business J&R Used Tire Service Inc., which is setting up a tire-shredding facility in Newport, Ind., primarily to supply feedstock to Pyrolyx. The purchase agreement is valued at $4.5 million.