he recovery of energy and materials from used tyres is big business. According to a report by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, in 2008 around one billion End-of-Life Tyres (ELTs) were being produced globally each year. A further four billion were estimated to be held in stockpiles and landfills. Around the world it … Read more
Everything tends to be bigger in Texas, and that’s particularly true of what’s being called by its operator the world’s largest tire recycling plant, which opened recently in Houston. Texas residents probably don’t spend much time considering what happens to the millions of worn-out car and truck tires that are discarded throughout the state each … Read more
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are aiming are advocating tyre pyrolysis as a way of recovering carbon black for use as a graphite substitute in lithium-ion batteries. The goal is to scale up the recovery process and demonstrate applications as anodes for lithium-ion batteries in large-format “pouch cells”. These … Read more
State leaders met with Baja California representatives Thursday to discuss cleaning tires and other waste from the Tijuana River Valley, after NBC7 Investigates highlighted the issue last month. When you buy a tire in California, you pay a $1.75 fee, and $1.00 of that goes into a state tire recycling management fund, but NBC 7 … Read more
In the next six months residents may begin to notice a decrease in the mountain of tires piled across the island as a new facility has opened to shred them to pieces. If you drive by a tire shop you may notice piles of tires stacked high – that’s because until recently Guam did not … Read more