Composed essentially of rubber, iron/steel and textile fibers, tires are not in all respects considered hazardous waste but, if burned, they release into the atmosphere carcinogenic substances and highly polluting toxic gases for humans and the environment.
Furthermore, in the event of being abandoned outdoors, given their nature, inside the carcasses, stagnations of rainwater can form which represent the ideal environment for the proliferation of mosquitoes and other disease-carrying insects.
Lastly, given their composition, biodegradation is extremely slow making them, in fact, similar to plastic.
Therefore, according to the legislation in force in many advanced countries, they are a special waste and as such cannot be disposed in landfills or burned outdoors and abandonment in nature is considered a crime.
As a rule, they are not recoverable for a subsequent life cycle by regenerating the tread 5 out of 6 tires.
Therefore 86% of the tires are destined to disposal or to be reinserted in industrial production processes, in the form of granules or rubber powder, as how much important secondary raw materials can be extracted from them to be reused in other contexts in a circular economy key.
Until now, their energy recovery was an extremely polluting process, with our process we can use 100% of the tires, without emissions, allocating them to energy recovery, metal (up to 15%) and recycling (up to 50 / 60%).
must be treated due:
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are easy to burn |
are poorly biodegradable |
facilitate the stagnation of water and the proliferation of insects |
