Recycling Archives - Page 26 of 65 - Tyrepress

News and feature articles relating to recycling, including collection, of end of life tyres.

Posts

Bio-Fill an eco-friendly tyre filler solution

In applications where punctures are an issue, operators often rely upon polyurethane tyre fillers to ensure downtime is kept to a minimum. Yet with the introduction of Reach regulations and the growing significance attached to eco-friendly tyres, the need for a filler that is equally green is also increasing. German company PURinvent says it has the answer. During June’s Reifen show, Tyres & Accessories spoke with PURinvent managing director, Dr. Frauke Petry, about the firm’s patented Bio-Fill filler, a product she says fits the bill perfectly.

25th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Pirelli aiming for greener Brazil production

At an event held on 18 June as part of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Pirelli presented a number of projects the company plans to implement in Brazil to analyse and reduce the environmental impact resulting from tyre production at its Campinas plant. The projects, which will be conducted in cooperation with Italy’s Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea and the Brazilian state of São Paulo, were presented by Pirelli’s director of sustainability and risk governance, Filippo Bettini, at the conference’s Italian pavilion. Also attending the presentation was Italian environment minister, Corrado Clini, and the chairman of Pirelli Brasile, Paolo Dal Pino.

19th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Goodyear returns to Hillhead

Goodyear will return to the biennial quarrying, recycling and heavy construction industries’ event, the Hillhead Show. The company will show its new off the road tyre user programme, named “Goodyear at your Service”. Available to all off-road plant operators in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the internet-based programme aims to increase customers’ access to expert support when purchasing and operating Goodyear tyres. The show takes place on 19-21 June at Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry, Buxton. Around 460 exhibitors will showcase their latest news and products.

18th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

UK company to produce fuel from organic waste

Gazasia, a UK company that develops waste-derived biofuels, is to begin operations in the Philippines to develop a vehicle fuel made from organic waste products in landfill. The company creates liquid biomethane – a carbon-neutral, sustainable and high-quality vehicle fuel – by cleaning and refining the natural gas produced by organic waste found in landfill sites.

15th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Hankook, Michelin reps pedal for Transaid in Madagascar

A team of 25 challengers from across the UK transport and logistics industry, including participants from Hankook and Michelin, is preparing for the fundraising challenge of a lifetime, cycling more than 450km across Madagascar, in aid of international development charity Transaid. The group has set a target of raising £100,000, and is leaving for the island on Friday 15 June, with a day’s acclimatisation in the capital of Antananarivo on the Saturday before the main event begins in earnest on Sunday. Proceeds from the event will benefit vital Transaid initiatives across Africa.

13th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Retreaders ‘disappointed’ with Micheldever’s drilling policy

Following Micheldever Tyres Services’ recent announcement that its branches are implementing a scrapping policy on all removed passenger car tyres, the Retread Manufacturers Association (RMA) has signalled its disappointment with this approach.

13th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Micheldever instigates removed tyre drilling policy

Micheldever Tyre Services has formalised a policy of drilling removed tyres with a view to preventing used tyres entering illegal or dangerous secondary markets. According to Mark Harley, retail operations director, at Micheldever Tyre Services: “Tyres removed from vehicles are usually taken off for a reason…they may have hidden damage which is only likely to be revealed when the car is driven down the road. The reality is that they pose a real road safety danger, are not fit for purpose and in fact offer very poor value for money”. According to a recent Auto Express survey, arranged in conjunction with TyreSafe, the cost per millimetre of part worn versus new tyres was almost double.

11th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Lassa showcases upcoming eco-range

In addition to the latest tyres and related equipment available for purchase now, numerous exhibitors at Reifen 2012 are showing concept and upcoming products. One such company is Turkish brand Lassa, which is displaying its Greenways range. Vicki Tillson, UK branch manager for Lassa manufacturer Brisa, told Tyres & Accessories that the Greenways eco-friendly passenger car tyre line-up is scheduled for release in 2013 and will be available in 20 sizes from 14 to 16-inch rim diameters, 70 to 55 aspect ratio and T and H speed ratings.

6th June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Part worns, vehicle dismantlers and the EA take centre stage at TRA Forum day

At the end of May, eight years after it began hosting such events, the Tyre Recovery Association held its annual Forum day in Warwickshire. This year’s was entitled “a commitment to excellence” and saw speakers representing everyone from Michelin Tyre Plc to the Environment Agency and ATS Euromaster share their perspectives of how excellence can be achieved.

1st June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Preaching to the choir

Editorial/Comment

As this issue of Tyres & Accessories goes to press, most of the team are en route to Essen for what has become the world’s largest tyre exhibition (look out for full coverage in our July issue and online at Tyrepress.com). Now that restrictions related to tyre labelling have been lifted, it is likely that this is the subject that everyone will be talking about. The leading manufacturers have already started positioning their companies in relation to one another and we can only imagine how they will position their respective pre- and post-labelling products compared with the rest of their group brands. Again this is something we are keeping a close eye on here at T&A.

1st June 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Breedon Aggregates re-lays A90 in tyre-derived rubberised tarmac trial

Breedon Aggregates reports that it has successfully completed the first major UK trial of a kind of asphalt made partly from recycled tyres on behalf of Transport Scotland. Following the trial in Scotland, the firm will now begin to market the new material, to be called Breedon Polymer R+, from its 18 asphalt plants throughout Scotland and England.

In late April a short stretch of the A90 dual carriageway between Perth and Dundee was resurfaced with the material and a recently-completed ‘grip test’ on the surface has now confirmed its viability. This stretch of road is one of the busiest in Scotland, carrying around 35,000 vehicles a day. Over the next few months the material will be closely monitored against a number of key performance criteria, including skid resistance. According to the company, the early indications are “very encouraging.”

31st May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyres to play a greater role in Green X Challenge

The American Le Mans Series, launched in 1999, is the first North American motorsport series to be acknowledged as a ‘green racing series’ by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International). Since the 2009 season, American Le Mans has also been linked to the Michelin Green X Challenge, which elects a winner for each race based upon a combination of energy use, emissions, speed and efficiency criteria.

15th May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

Comment: No teeth in UK implementation of tyre legislation

Editorial/Comment, Legislation, News, UK News

When it comes to legislation affecting the tyre industry it is a tug of war between “rules are rules” and “rules are made to be broken.” As readers of our Tyrepress.com e-Newsletter will already know, the events of recent weeks have provided us with some bizarre examples of this kind of contrary logic in action. When Carl Steele from Lincolnshire was found guilty of causing in excess of a quarter of million pounds worth of environmental damage during a two year tyre dumping stint, you could be forgiven for thinking the justice system would force him to pay his debt to society.

1st May 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

South Africa waste tyre management plan “back on track”

A plan by government-backed REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) to help deal with the growing problem of waste tyres in the country is “back on track”, according to local news sources. The government announced that the Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan (IIWTMP) had been signed by Minister Edna Molewa, and will deal with close to 200,000 tons of waste tyres produced in South Africa per year. The country currently recycles an estimated five per cent of tyres.

19th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors

UK’s worst tyre dumper pays just £122 for his crimes

When Carl Steele from Lincolnshire was found guilty of causing in excess of a quarter of million pounds worth of environmental damage during a two year tyre dumping stint, you could be forgiven for thinking the justice system would force him to pay his debt to society.

As Tyres & Accessories reported at the time, the 33-year-old was indeed sentenced to 15 months in November. However he has now been released after serving just five months of his sentence. Perhaps the most ironic part of the story is that despite amassing an estimated £2.5 million through illegally dumping tyres in Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Worcestershire and Yorkshire he only has to pay back £122.

11th April 2012/by Tyrepress Editors