It's SMART to recycle
The BPF is participating in a European Project - with the name of SMART. To give the project its full title: 'SMART: Sustainable Moulding of Articles from Recycled Tyres'
End of Life Tyres represent a resource opportunity, for both the society and the large recycling community. Even though tyres are 100% recyclable and their chemical and physical properties make them an outstandingly valuable resource, still energy recovery and land filling constitute the greatest share of the end-of-life destination.
The tyre recycling sector is constituted by large communities of SMEs which is in a compelling need of exploiting ELT resource and seeking for an innovative and decisive solution to increase the competitiveness of tyres recycling when compared to energy recovery.
SMART participant SME-AGs strongly believe that the starting point, upon which it is necessary to build the future of tyre recycling is to focus on eliminating the pricy resins usually integrated in the moulding process and serving as rubber fragmented parts binders, and to achieve recyclable products with mechanical properties comparable to primary rubber products, at least for what concerns the performance to compression.
Strategic value statement of SMART project is to increase the competitiveness of tyre recycling and enlarge the target application products in new industrial sectors, making it more economically, energetically and environmentally convenient with respect to energy recovery, while providing a viable and clean solution to completely substitute land filling.
Hence, the SMART technological objectives are to realise innovative recycled rubber products in high added value sectors (sport, transport and industry) with specifically produced machine, by means of tyres’ grinding without the addition of any linking agent or virgin rubber.
As usual with the FP7 Research for Association projects, the IPR generated will be with the Associations and their members to exploit as they see fit.
The project is funded under Grant Agreement Number 286465.
Further information can be found here
End of Life Tyres represent a resource opportunity, for both the society and the large recycling community. Even though tyres are 100% recyclable and their chemical and physical properties make them an outstandingly valuable resource, still energy recovery and land filling constitute the greatest share of the end-of-life destination.
The tyre recycling sector is constituted by large communities of SMEs which is in a compelling need of exploiting ELT resource and seeking for an innovative and decisive solution to increase the competitiveness of tyres recycling when compared to energy recovery.
SMART participant SME-AGs strongly believe that the starting point, upon which it is necessary to build the future of tyre recycling is to focus on eliminating the pricy resins usually integrated in the moulding process and serving as rubber fragmented parts binders, and to achieve recyclable products with mechanical properties comparable to primary rubber products, at least for what concerns the performance to compression.
Strategic value statement of SMART project is to increase the competitiveness of tyre recycling and enlarge the target application products in new industrial sectors, making it more economically, energetically and environmentally convenient with respect to energy recovery, while providing a viable and clean solution to completely substitute land filling.
Hence, the SMART technological objectives are to realise innovative recycled rubber products in high added value sectors (sport, transport and industry) with specifically produced machine, by means of tyres’ grinding without the addition of any linking agent or virgin rubber.
As usual with the FP7 Research for Association projects, the IPR generated will be with the Associations and their members to exploit as they see fit.
The project is funded under Grant Agreement Number 286465.
Further information can be found here
