New EU proposal will increase the need for alternative ways of recycling vehicle tyres
The European Chemicals Agency, ECHA, has submitted a proposal to ban all use of rubber granules by 2022. Today, rubber granules are mainly produced from end-of-life vehicle tyres, and a ban would greatly increase the need for alternative recycling methods. ‘If the granulate is banned, a large number of the uses that currently exist for worn out tyres will disappear. This will in turn increase the demand for more efficient recycling of the kind that our technology can offer,’ says Thomas Sörensson, CEO of Enviro. Thomas Sörensson, CEO Enviro. The majority of end-of-life tyres