Private Citizen

End-of-life tires can be used as raw material to produce other vulcanized rubber goods. This type of recovery, according to legislation, is considered recycling.

The tires are shredded by mechanical processing, in various stages, which gives every time smaller and smaller pieces of rubber. At the same time, takes place a mechanical separation of all the materials that tires are made of.

The end-products resulting from the mechanical processing of end-of-life tires are the following:

All 3 of the above materials are used in final applications.

End-of-life tires and their processing by-products (e.g., textiles) can also be used for energy recovery. In this case we talk about energy recovery/co-incineration, usually taking place in cement industries or other energy-intensive industries (e.g., steel, paper industry, etc.). In our country, energy recovery taking place in the cement industry (around 10%) is a completely safe process, which does not produce any combustion residues, since they are incorporated in the final product (clinker). On the other hand, the gaseous emissions from this practice are controlled online and are similar to conventional solid fuel emissions (e.g., PET coke).

The variety of products resulting from the recycling of useless tires is quite extensive and can be used in a broad pallete of applications.

Some of these applications include:

Ecoelastika rewards the citizens who, by choosing an ecoelastikaspot to change their tires, contribute to the fomenting of recycling and environment protection.

Our Facebook page facebook.com/ecoelastika runs a sweepstake program, which offers monthly free tires for private cars and motorcycles.

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