However it is not an easy task, to create a waste management system for any End-of-Life-Product, especially one with focus on the environment.
It requires bold politicians, an industry which takes responsibility, and processors (recyclers) who are willing to make long term investments.
So what should become of a tyre when it has reached its end of a useful life on a vehicle?
There are several options, however if you look at it from an environmental perspective, there is really only one solution: Material recycling. This has also been documented by several Life Cycle Assessment studies (link).
It is quite clear that retreading is a better environmental solution than material recycling, but even the retreaded tyres reach a point where they come to end of their useful lives, and cannot be retreaded again - so eventually retreaded tyres must also be treated as ELTs.
The word recycling has become a buzz word, frequently used for all kinds of solutions. However proper recycling is when new raw materials are produced from the original product, and can substitute virgin raw materials.
The BANREC technology guarantees output products that are clean and uniform and which can substitute virgin material in end products. That makes it a cradle to cradle solution in an entire waste stream.