News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

The Manitoba authorities have expressed their commitment to ongoing scrap tire recycling initiatives stressing that existing producer responsibility organization Tire Stewardship Manitoba will not be dropped. The provincial tire recycling system relies on producer responsibility organization funded by the industry that assists in various sorts of waste disposal and recycling. In total, Manitoba has 12 similar initiatives.

According to Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources, the country witnesses a huge number of neglected discarded tires. Because of the pressing issue, some businesses are willing to construct a tire recycling facility in the Lagunera province, says the Secretary of Environment of Coahuila Eglantina Canales Gutiérrez. Today, there is a scrap tire collection unit in Lagunera province called Paseo de las Piedras 350, but what is still lacking is proper recycling of scrap tires into crumb rubber, steel and other reusable materials.

In Canada, the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority (RPRA) is expected to replace the Ontario Tire Stewardship (OTS) program that will stop operating as a scrap tire regulator in the end of 2018. According to forecasts, the RPRA’s management will differ from the OTS program that had been in charge of millions of dollars – the substantial sums had been spent to cover tire disposal and tire recycling expenditures.

According to the document, the growth, at some extent, is a result of the anti-Dengue campaign which was launched to alert the public of the threats that may arise when tires are abandoned and serve as breeding place for mosquitos, the report added. The document went on claiming that the rate for tire recycling now exceeds the one of aluminum.

As an example, TSA refers to rubber-modified asphalt testing made by the local road authorities and later published by Australian Asphalt Pavement Association. Also, TSA referred to a project launched by the University of Melbourne aiming to develop an optimum blend of permeable paving that uses recycled tires to create footpaths, bike roads and low-volume traffic roads which also can provide water to nearby trees.

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According to Hidde Smit – a consultant and analyst of Rubber Forecasts – natural rubber (NR) prices will be going up during the next two quarters of 2017 before commodity surplus weighs in on the market again. Price increase will occur due to severe winter season in Thailand as well as reduction in tapping activities. In his speech during the Tire Technology Expo in Hannover, Germany held this February, Mr. Smit pointed out that tapping intensities in rubber-producing countries went down predominantly due to decreased prices since 2013 (below USD 2.00) as well as severe floods in Thailand – the biggest natural rubber producing country – the beginning of the year.

TreadWright, a US-based company that renovates old tires in a sustainable manner producing a totally new rubber for vehicles, claims that their innovative product is cost-effective, durable, top-quality and environment-friendly. The company takes used tire casings and remolds new rubber onto the old casings– this procedure prevents accumulation of waste tires on landfills and finds use for thousands of discarded tires.