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Orion S.A., a global specialty chemicals producer, the company is investing €12.8 million – including €6.4 million in funding from the German government and the European Union – to further develop and demonstrate a climate-neutral process for producing carbon black from alternative carbon sources. The technology is designed to improve Orion’s yield and throughput in the production of carbon black using circular feedstocks and thus potentially reduce the carbon footprint of the process by a significant amount.

In his opinion to Financial Mail, an environmental consultant Sithembiso Malusi Mahlaba expressed concern with South African authorities’ ways of handling waste tires. He shared his views that the government wasn’t taking the environmental matters seriously and it was high time for the officials to reconsider their approach and start favoring circular economy “before it’s not too late”.

Grupo Soledad, a parent company of the Spanish tire retreading firm Insa Turbo, has grown in the last years and shown some great results in circular economy advancement. It produces tire retreads at Insa Turbo’s retread manufacturing plant at Aspe that actually has expanded and now serves not only as a facility where retreads are made. The Group has its tire retreading plant — annually, the plant turns back to life some 200,000 tires of various types and makes OTR retreads. The corporation also looks for the ways to boost retread sale. For instance, Grupo Soledad tries to do so by teaming up with Continental that sends all its casing to the group’s site at Aspe, so the two can produce quality retreads.

George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian stated that Britain was avoiding tire recycling in the country and was sending instead huge cargos of scrap tires to India. Once the exported waste tires reached facilities in India, they were processed into fuel by means of pyrolysis in most cases. According to the journo’s study, the British authorities haven’t been checking that scrap tires actually were handled at the legal premises and were absolutely safe to the environment. Thus, he concluded that the tire processing was not being monitored carefully enough.

This September, Robert Weibold attended the First International Cooperation Summit on Tire and Rubber Recycling in Kunshan, China, on 16 and 17 September 2019. The event gathered industry participants from all over China, as well as from the European Union, the United States and other countries. Proclaimed by Zhu Jun, the president of China’s Tire Recycling Association (CTRA), the motto of the summit was “Environment first, Resources second; no mercy to polluting technologies”. As he and many other speakers asserted, China had gone a huge transformation in the tire recycling industry over the last 10 years.

Last week, from June 6 till June 12, Tyre Stewardship Australia proudly supported Australian Made Week. Australian Made Week highlights the makers and growers that are boosting the local economy, particularly in a post-pandemic climate where locally sourced product is more important than ever.

At the Tire Technology Expo from March 19th to 21st, 2024, the Allianz Zukunft Reifen (AZuR) initiative impressed with numerous technical presentations in the conference program and with the large international turnout at the AZuR booth and the clear presence of the topics of Circular Economy and Sustainability throughout the event, confirming the network's efforts towards a sustainable tire circular economy.

JANUARY 2023: ELT Pyrolysis - a Best Available Technology (BAT). This comprehensive overview discusses the concept of Best Available Technology (BAT) in waste management, focusing on End-of-Life Tires (ELT) pyrolysis. It covers the international context, including the Basel Convention guidelines for ELT management. It emphasizes the classification of ELT pyrolysis as environmentally sound management, referencing European Union regulations and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recognition. The Tire Industry Project (TIP)

JANUARY 2024: Global circularity must be doubled by 2032. The Circularity Gap Report 2024 reveals a decline in global circularity to 7.2%, emphasizing the urgent need for transformative action. Excessive material consumption drives environmental harm and inequality, with high-income nations disproportionately responsible. The report outlines 16 solutions across key sectors to reduce material use by 30% while improving well-being.