Tyres are complex products essential to the mobility of millions of Europeans. Likewise, tyre recycling is essential to the sustainability of the entire tyre value chain, be it in terms of resource-efficiency or climate neutrality. Yet, despite a landmark landfill ban in 2006, much needs to be done to improve the circularity of tyres.
To give an order of magnitude, today, for one tyre that is recycled, one tyre gets incinerated for energy recovery and the worse in terms of end-markets opportunities is yet to come. Indeed, the European Union plans to:
Against such a situation, what can policy-makers and the whole tyre value chain do to boost the circularity of tyres?
EuRIC, which gathers the leading European tyre recyclers, believes that immediate policy actions are needed on all the different steps of the tyre value chain -from tyre design, collection and sorting, recycling, to the uptake of recycled materials into new tyres and other end-products. In particular, the upcoming European Sustainable Product Regulation (ESPR) alongside with the revision of the End-of-Life Vehicles Directive (ELVD) and Construction Product Regulation (CPR) have a key role to play in unlocking investments in tyre recycling in Europe and developing new end-markets that will support the objectives set by the European Green Deal and the new Circular Economy Action Plan.
This is all the more urgent to minimize the EU reliance on natural resources as rubber is a critical raw material in the EU, being mostly imported from South-East Asia for natural rubber and Russia for synthetic rubber.
We invite you to join the 8th edition of our Recyclers’ Talks series fully dedicated to tyre recycling in order to discuss with top-level policy-makers and experts how to boost the circularity of tyres alongside the value chain
Click on the link below for the latest version of the agenda
08:30 – 09:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 – 10:00 |
Session 1: Industry Status and Future Outlook |
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Poul Steen Rasmussen |
| President, EuRIC MTR / CEO, Genan Group |
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Adam McCarthy |
| Secretary General, ETRMA |
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Pierre Henry |
|Policy Officer, European Commission |
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Session 2: Microplastic restriction |
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Mark Murfitt |
|Managing Director, Murfitt Industries |
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Juan Carlos Gonzalez Garcia |
|IBV |
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Reinholdt Schultz |
|Mannov |
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11:00 – 11:20 |
Coffee break |
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11:20 – 12:30 |
Session 3: Tyre Circularity and sustainability |
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Susanne Madelung |
|PVP/bvse |
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Maria Westerbos |
|Plastic Soup Foundation |
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Daniele Fornai |
|Ecopneus |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Networking lunch |
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13:30 – 15:00 |
Session 4: Implementing Circularity in the tyre value chain |
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Günter Ihle |
|Tyre Retreading |
RIGDON |
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Marta Martins |
|Mechanical Tyre Recycling |
Genan |
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Pieter Ter Haar |
|Carbon Black |
Circtec |
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David Brown |
|Devulcanisation |
ReRun Rubber Products |
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Jérôme Barrand Arthur Wagner |
|Tyre idendification |
Michelin REGOM |
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15:00 – 15:20 |
Coffee Break |
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15:20 – 16:40 |
Session 5: Key Drivers for ELT end-markets |
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Leticia Saiz |
|SIGNUS |
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Robert Weibold |
|Weibold Consulting |
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Sonia Megert |
|TRS |
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Christina Guth |
|AZuR |
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Lucile Cassier |
|REGOM |
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16:40 – 18:00 |
Session 6: Go round and round |
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Martin von Wolfersdorff |
|Wolfersdorff Consulting |
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Jocelyn Secula |
|Michelin |
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Przemysław Zaprzalski Patrick Buder |
|RECYKL |Zeppelin |
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Gerwin Elderman |
|Teijin Aramid |
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Chris Twigg |
|ARP |
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18:00 |
Starting to feel “tyred”? Goodbye drink |
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