The new challenges of end-of-life tyres management systems: A Spanish case study

Abstract

Directive 2008/98/EC released by the European Union represents a significant step forward in all relevant aspects of waste management. Under the already established, extended produced responsibility (EPR) principle, new policies have been enunciated to continuously achieve better overall environmental performance of key products throughout their life phases. This paper discusses how the directive is being articulated in Spain by the main integrated management system (IMS) for end-of-life (EOL) tyres since its creation in 2006. Focusing on the IMS technological, economic and legal aspects, the study provides a global perspective and evaluation of how the IMS is facing the current issues to resolve, the new challenges that have appeared and the management vision for the coming years.

Treatment and disposal of tyres: Two EU approaches. A review

“…This is not the case for Eastern Europe, thanks to the growing demand for rubber in the countries of the ex Russian Federation, where there are still end-of-life tyre (ELT) management systems and the increasing use of artificial turf football fields and roads paved with modified bitumen. This has led the local demand for recycled rubber to overcome the internal production capacity (Medvedev and Goncharov, 2001;Uruburu et al, 2013).…”

Fresh State Properties of Concrete Incorporating Scrap Tire Rubber

“…Algeria alone generates approximately 25918.50 tons/year of used tires [1]. Numerous technical solutions and integrated management system related to end of life tyres are proposed [2][3][4][5][6].…”

Energy, Transportation and Global Warming

“…It was clearly observed that despite the wide technological study for environmental and financial viability, there is not a widely accepted scheme or combination of technologies in order to achieve the optimum treatment of ELTs. There are some studies (Uruburu et al 2013;Ene and Ozturk 2015;Subulan et al 2015) were the product recovery operations network as well as the final treatment for environmental optimization has been investigated. As presented in these studies the first step is data collection, in order to acquire certain parameters for processing.…”