RE: Heading North Everyday ?5 Jan 2025 07:11
Tyres
As of present, an estimated 4 billion tyres are sitting around in landfills globally, a number set to increase dramatically given the large number of tyres that reach end of life every year. Some sources estimate that as many as 41% of all tyres that have reached end of life will end up in different landfills, stockpiled or even have an unknown future.
But due to the increased demand for tyres globally, a disproportionate number of tyres are still shipped off to developing countries, where large quantities end up in landfills. More on the ethical and security issues this presents later.
Several countries on the African and Asian continent have become important entry points and “hubs” for discarded rubber tyres, disposal and pyrolysis processes with the aim of turning tyres into fuel or recovering the carbon black.
Moreover, a huge number of tyres do not end up being processed or turned into fuel, instead they end up in those same landfills described above. From Kuwait to India, these landfills are a massive environmental hazard and twenty years after the EU outlawed tyre landfills in the EU, European companies are contributing to the same problem abroad.
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