Every year, over one billion tyres are manufactured worldwide, and equal number of tyres are permanently removed from vehicles, becoming waste. Although modern tyres are fundamentally rubber products, they are a complex mix of natural and synthetic rubbers.

This complexity has led to stockpiling, dumping and diversion to landfill. This has exposed communities to environmental and health risks and has squandered valuable resources locked up in tyre dumps.

Stockpiled tyres are at risk of fire and toxic smoke; other risks include the stagnant water in tyres that provides breeding grounds for mosquitoes and leaching of toxic substances into soils. India has been recycling and reusing waste tyres for four decades, although it is estimated that 60% are disposed of through illegal dumping.

Carbon Black is an important ingredient to make tyres durable today. However its production is far from being sustainable. Even though carbon black is something you may not see every day you’ll be surprised to know how it improves lives throughout the world by adding strength durability and enhanced performance to products we all use such as automobile tires, plastics like those used in your mobile phone or the dashboard of your car; it is used in cosmetics, ink toners for printers and copiers, paint and coatings and the ink that you read in your daily newspaper. Isn’t it amazing how a mere powder is a common factor in all of our lives!

If this material is so useful today, then just imagine how important it is to consider the sustainability aspect in this business operation?

Today on Weekly GupShup with  The Circular Collective we will talk about Black Bear (a Netherlands based company) who have developed a highly innovative process enabling the recovery of high quality carbon black from waste tires, thereby providing a sustainable solution for a problematic waste stream and preventing pollution related to the production of furnace carbon black.

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