News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

A Chicago-based couple will use their love of DIY design and recycling to construct an Airbnb rental out of end-of-life tires on their property south of Grand Rapids. Last month, Kim Sullivan and Clayton Brown won $100,000 from a $10 million contest hosted by Airbnb. The money will enable them to realize their dream of constructing a house out of recycled tires that will be featured on Airbnb's website under the OMG! category.

Martin von Wolfersdorff – a renown carbon black expert from Berlin – started a monthly recovered carbon black newsletter on LinkedIn! In the inaugural October edition, he highlighted some interesting events in Q3'2022. Martin von Wolfersdorff is a world-class expert in pyrolysis and recovered carbon black as well as marketing of specialty chemical materials. He is deeply involved in the industry, serves one of the organizers of the first global conference on recovered carbon black and has been supporting multinational companies in the tire pyrolysis sector, the tire industry, tire trade organizations, rubber and the plastics industries.

In its recent press release, Tyre Stewardship Australia (TSA) – the end-of-life tire management authority designing programs and regulations for tire recycling and material recovery in the country – reported that the company was privileged to attend the Waste Innovation and Recycling Awards (WIRA) and sponsor the award for Outstanding WARR Project: Regional. The award was given to Macedon Ranges Shire Council for their Four Bin System (Let’s get sorted) – a project that has delivered cost-effective and high-impact success in its targeted field.

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Decarbonizing the industrial sector including waste treatment is one of our great challenges. Decarbonisation is needed at greater speed and scale if companies are to remain compliant, viable and profitable. But deciding which pathways to adopt can be challenging. One of the main challenges is the trilemma of energy needing to be secure, affordable, and low carbon. These parameters need to be managed in unison, despite the volatility in prices, policy and supply.

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.”

According to Pakistan’s Minute Mirror newspaper, the Punjab Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to demolish top pollution-causing industry, pyrolysis plants in the city, under its steps to control the smog. Authorities have put a restriction on all the activities that cause smog since Lahore has become one of the most polluted cities in the world. However, despite the ban, these plants continued to operate, producing cheap, substandard oil and releasing toxic smoke, which increased the air pollution.

Ecopneus received the recognition as Blue Ambassador issued by the scientific technical committee of the Blue Planet Economy Expoforum, an event dedicated to the blue economy organized by Fiera Roma, chaired by Roberto Morabito, ENEA General Manager, for the continuous commitment in the management of end-of-life Tires and for the research and training of new skills and professions in line with the values of the Blue Economy. The award is assigned to the most virtuous realities that have shown particular attention to the principles of the Blue Economy, especially in the formation of new professions.

Middle East Rubber & Tyre Expo 2023 organized by TechnoBiz is a regional meeting point for rubber & tyre industries in the Middle Eastern Region. This event is formerly called as "Arab Rubber Expo". The main components of this exhibition: Trade Exhibition, Conference, Training Workshops, Research Poster Zone, New Technology Poster Zone, Networking Event