News and feature articles relating to recycling, including collection, of end of life tyres.
Cooper Tire & Rubber’s Texarkana facility in the US state of Arkansas has received this year’s ‘Diamond Award for Excellence in Environmental Leadership’ from the Arkansas Environmental Federation. The award, states the tyre maker, recognises companies that demonstrate initiative or leadership in managing their environmental affairs.
The ninth International Tyre Industry Expo in South America, PneuShow is set to take place in São Paulo, Brazil between 13 and 16 April, 2010 at the Expo Center Norte. The event will also include its second international tyre industry convention. Calling itself “the most important show for the tyre industry in South America”, PneuShow Recaufair’s exhibitors will include representatives from the tyre and wheel trades, including special application and industrial products; repair and retreading materials, machinery and moulds; and servicing and recycling equipment and tools. In 2008, the event had 100 exhibitors in a space of 4,500 sqm, with 10,800 visitors.
OM Recycling’s tyre recycling depot in Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland is facing an investigation by the Environmental Crime Unit following residents’ complaints. OM Recycling has around 400,000 tyres stockpiled at the facility, some of which are stored outside the company’s licensed area, say BBC news reports. The Environment minister Edwin Poots told Auntie of the “significant risk to human health and the environment” posed by the tyre pile, while SDLP councillor Josephine O’Hare said she was aghast at the quantities of tyres, though “nobody wants to stop anybody doing their business”. OM Recycling responded that it is co-operating with the Environment Agency and that it is committed to resolving issues at its “secure” site.
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner has reported that an area man has been given an ultimatum by the courts; remove 5,500 illegally stored used tyres from his Honley dumping ground or go to prison. A crown court judge ordered Kyriacos Kyrianou to remove the tyres in April, having been fined £5,000 in November 2007 for storing up to 15,000 tyres on the same site. While Krianou defended himself, saying that previous fines and legal costs have left him unable to afford to remove all the tyres, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was unwilling to cut him any slack yesterday at Bradford Crown Court, bluntly stating: “Get rid of the tyres and I will consider an alternative to sending you to prison. If you don’t remove the tyres you will back me into a corner. If they are gone, job done, if not you are taking the Mickey, to put it bluntly, and I will send you to prison.”
Road testing of tyres made from a compound containing a sizeable recycled content has reportedly shown them to “clearly equal the original control specimen.” Magnum D'Or Resources states its Magnum SRI custom compound light truck tyres were driven to the Malaysian Rubber Board's Rubber Research Institute, where further testing is to take place. The tyres contain a 14 per cent recycled content, which Magnum notes is nearly six hundred per cent more than the current amount of surface treated crumb used in tyres.
Back in September Columbus McKinnon Corporation, Sarasota, Florida installated of one its tyre recycling systems at B.A.S. Recycling, Inc. in Moreno Valley, California. This multi-stage system is capable of processing passenger car, truck tyres and super single truck tyres at production rates of 12,000 lbs. or more an hour.
The Size Reduction Stage consists of a CM Primary Shredder with screening capabilities to produce a 4 to 6-inch tyre chip feed stock that is fed to a CM Liberator for the next stage of the process. The Steel Liberation Stage (SLS) is designed to receive the 4 to 6 inch tire chips and utilizes a CM4R Liberator. Once the steel and rubber are liberated the system sorts the rubber and clean wire. Clean steel is sold to a steel mill and the rubber fractions are passed on for further processing through a screening system. Material ideal for mulch market is screened out, while the balance of the material is sent to a surge bin for processing in the cryogenic system.
David Bavaird, director of Scrap Tyre Exchange, has created a programme called TEFORS (Tyre Education for Schools) designed to teach children how a tyre works, the importance of tyre safety and the benefits of tyre recycling. TEFORS programme was launched this week at Battle Hill Primary School in North Tyneside, whose programme has been sponsored by neighbouring North Eastern Tyre and Autocare’s (NETA) Silverlink retail outlet.
Gavin Marshall, managing director of NETA says they were delighted to be the first to commit to the programme: “North Eastern Tyres has outlets across the North East and we were thrilled to be invited to be the first to take up the opportunity of being the first sponsor of what looks like becoming a hugely successful scheme. TEFORS will bring to life subjects such as science, safety and green issues in the classroom and will allow us to play a much closer role within the community where our retail outlet sits. We are thrilled to be launching this with Battle Hill Primary School.”
Australia’s national broadcaster has reported on World Health Organization concerns that the country’s tyre industry and its trade with South East Asia is responsible for health hazards within the region. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s current affairs programme “The World Today”, some two-thirds of the scrap tyres generated in Australia each year – a quantity equalling 250,000 tonnes – are sent to Asian countries, and the quantity shipped there has tripled in the last 18 months.
Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) secretary general and Imported Tyre Manufacturer’s Association (ITMA) director Peter Taylor received his OBE during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 15 October. The award was presented by Her Majesty The Queen. Taylor received the award for services to the tyre industry and for his contribution to the businesses ground breaking tyre recovery and recycling programme.
In a move that is perhaps a faint nod to his former career, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill permitting usage of a portion of the state’s scrap tyre recycling funds to “terminate” the presence of scrap tyres on the Mexico side of the California-Mexico border. The money will be used to reduce scrap tyre levels and encourage the establishment of recycling projects.
The Environment Agency has given Cemex the green light to burn fossil fuel substitute Climafuel on a permanent basis in its Rugby cement works. Trials using a combination of Climafuel, which is made from household waste, and shredded waste tyres satisfied the agency that the material can be used without harmful effects on the environment or human health.
Mancton Rubber Technologies – a tyre reclamation facility in Sheffield – has been aflame since 22:00 on 13 October and reports suggest that it could continue throughout the remainder of today after firefighters agreed to allow the fire to burn out. The 60 firefighters and nine engines at the scene are concentrating their efforts on cooling structures around the Stevenson Road, Atercliffe factory, using water from the River Don to prevent steelwork constructions from collapsing. Police say they will investigate the causes of the fire when it is no longer ablaze.
Cheshire based company BTR Limited has been ordered to pay £10,000 in fines and costs for its involvement in the illegal export of waste tyres to Vietnam. The case, taken by the Environment Agency, is the first ever taken under new regulations controlling the import and export of waste to the UK.
In addition to yesterday’s revelations that the huge Campsie Industrial Estate, Londonderry tyre fire was storing tyres illegally, Belfast Telegraph is now reporting that as many as 500,000 tyres may have been on fire. The latest estimation of the size of the illegal tyre dump and the impending inferno comes as dwarfs original estimates of 50,000 tyres.
The tyre fire that has been burning since Sunday at a site in Londonderry where tyres were being stored illegally has finally been extinguished. Firefighters arriving to tackle the blaze on Sunday night found four separate fires across the one-acre site at Eglinton. The fire service said tackling the blaze had been a "mammoth task" and the cost of the operation is expected to run into tens of thousands of pounds.
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