Reminder re tyres20 Dec 2019 07:35
The huge problem of ridding the world safely of plastic waste is always in the media and yet the additional problem of the huge tyre dumps appears to be forgotten.
I can see why, giving the problem of plastics minusculeing down to micro plastics and the damage they cause, especially when they seep or are deposited in our oceans and rivers.
Meanwhile waste tyre dumps just get bigger and bigger, with some so huge that they can clearly be seen from space, several in the UK , with one in Lincolnshire containing over 1,000,000 tyres and that is not the biggest in the country.
Some councils are looking at costs of several million pound to get rid of the problem.
Kuwaiti has the worlds largest at over 7,000,000 tyres, just put world tyre dumps into google and see how many massive dumps there are.
We know that tyres are also suitable for feed stock into PHE's DMG system, and once they start to be accepted as a green disposal method, no doubt they will be a sort after solution by councils to solve the tyre dump problem, without transporting the tyers as a DMG can be built on site.
A case of solution going to the problem, not the other way round.
The tyre dump problem is not going to go away and can only get bigger.
2020 and onward is looking very positive indeed for PHE.