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Tyre recycling: making the wheel go round

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:

  • Ban the use of rubber infill materials used in artificial turf pitches that represents an average of 30% of end-markets;
  • Restrict further the content of PAHs and other chemicals impacting the remaining 70% of the market.  

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

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  • 08:30 – 09:00

    Registration

    09:00 – 10:00

    Session 1: Industry Status and Future Outlook

     

    Poul Steen Rasmussen

    | President, EuRIC MTR / CEO, Genan Group

     

    Adam McCarthy

    | Secretary General, ETRMA

     

    Pierre Henry

    | Policy Officer, European Commission

    10:00 – 11:00

    Session 2: Microplastic restriction

     

    Mark Murfitt

    | Managing Director, Murfitt Industries

     

    Juan Carlos Gonzalez Garcia

    | IBV

     

    Reinholdt Schultz

    | Mannov

      Hélène Duguy | ClientEarth

    11:00 – 11:20

    Coffee break

    11:20 – 12:30

    Session 3: Tyre Circularity and sustainability

     

    Susanne Madelung

    | PVP/bvse

     

    Maria Westerbos

    | Plastic Soup Foundation

     

    Daniele Fornai

    | Ecopneus

      Laia Perez Simbor | ETRMA

    12:30 – 13:30

    Networking lunch

    13:30 – 15:00

    Session 4: Implementing Circularity in the tyre value chain                          

     

    Günter Ihle

    | Tyre Retreading

    RIGDON

     

    Marta Martins

    | Mechanical Tyre Recycling

    Genan

     

    Pieter Ter Haar

    | Carbon Black

    Circtec

     

    David Brown

    | Devulcanisation

    ReRun Rubber Products

     

    Jérôme Barrand

    Arthur Wagner

    | Tyre idendification

    Michelin

    REGOM

    15:00 – 15:20

    Coffee Break

    15:20 – 16:40

    Session 5: Key Drivers for ELT end-markets

     

    Leticia Saiz

    | SIGNUS

     

    Robert Weibold

    | Weibold Consulting

     

    Sonia Megert

    | TRS

     

    Christina Guth

    | AZuR

     

    Lucile Cassier

    | REGOM

    16:40 – 18:00

    Session 6: Go round and round

     

    Martin von Wolfersdorff

    | Wolfersdorff Consulting

     

    Jocelyn Secula

    | Michelin

     

    Przemysław Zaprzalski

    Guido Veit

    | RECYKL

    | Zeppelin

     

    Gerwin Elderman

    | Teijin Aramid

     

    Chris Twigg

    | ARP

    18:00

    Starting to feel “tyred”? Goodbye drink

     

     

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When & Where

18 April 2023

09:00 - 18:00

Bluepoint
Bd Auguste Reyers 80
1030 Brussels
Belgium

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