EU achieves higher tyre recovery rates than US

Beijing - The EU now recovers a greater proportion of its scrap tyres than the US, according to the chair of the Bureau of International Recycling's tyres committee. The speaker, Barend Ten Bruggencate of The Netherlands was reporting to the Committee at its meeting in Beijing.

He quoted information from the ETRMA report End of Life Tyres, a valuable resource with a wealth of potential

Ten Bruggencate said Landfill by tyres had fallen to 20 percent of usage in 2004, compared with 62 percent in 1994, while energy recovery applications absorbed 31 percent of used tyres in 2004 compared to 11 percent in 1994.

A guest speaker at the event, Jiang Zhiyun, President of the China Tyre Retreading, Repairing & Recycling Association, said approximately 120 million scrap tyres were generated in China last year, of which some 9 million were retreaded. Meanwhile, production of reclaimed rubber from tyres amounted to around 1.2 million tonnes. His speech was reported in more detail in the China Plastic & Rubber Journal. (see link below).

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Press release from BIR

China to enhance waste rubber recycling for sustainability China Plastic & Rubber Journal (China)