ETRA is a European organization founded in 1994 to promote tire recycling. It aims to develop tire recycling as an environmentally sound and commercially sustainable industry in Europe. ETRA works to identify and expand markets for recycled tire materials, develop industry standards, and promote guidelines for recycled tire product applications. Each year over 3 million tons of post-consumer tires are removed from vehicles in the EU and defined as waste. Recycled tire rubber is used in construction materials, sports surfaces, transportation, and other manufactured goods. ETRA organizes conferences and workshops to advance the tire recycling industry and circular economy in Europe.

1. Tyre Recycling:
Materials and Products for the
Circular Economy
Geom. Bruno Marabotto
ETRA

2. ETRA European Tyre Recycling Association
• Founded in 1994 ETRA is an independent, member-driven
organisation devoted exclusively to material recycling of tyres
• Its mission is to develop tyre recycling as an environmentally
sound and commercially sustainable European industry
• Objectives are to develop and advance policies supporting the industry
– To identify, develop and expand markets;
– To devise and implement professional standards;
– To prepare and promote guidelines for materials, products, applications;
– To offer communication links with governments and industries
Membership is open to public and private sectors

3. EACH YEAR ON THE PLANET

5. Tyre recycling in the EU
• Each year in the 28 EU States and Norway, + 3,200,000 tonnes of
post- consumer tyres are permanently removed from vehicles
and defined as waste
If you burn a tyre you
recover only 16% of
energy needed to
produce it

6. TYRE RECYCLING SBR RUBBER GRANULATE
like a ants: little,modest,cheaper,recycled,hard work,very good performance…………….

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Recycled tyre rubber materials
Recycled tyre rubber materials
Whole tyres
10%
Shred/chips
18%
Granulate
53%
Powders
10%
Specialty
8%Misc.
1%

9. Principal market sectors
Constructi
on
18%
Surface
transport
17%
Sport
surfaces
and
infrastruct
ure
37%
Manufacture
d products
27%
Miscellaneo
us 1%
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10. Characteristics of RTMs
• RTMs are soft, tough, flexible and elastic
• RTMs have excellent insulation characteristics - reducing the
impacts of vibration and sound, and under certain circum-
stances, current as well
• RTMs are moisture resistant as well porous, allowing water to
drain freely
• RTMs retain the characteristics of a tyre on the road !
• Used on road surfaces, RTMs can reduce vehicle skid, glare
and tyre spray

11. Characteristics (cont)
• Anti-static
• Non-toxic
• Waterproof and anti-slip
• Resistant to Ultra violet rays
• Perform well even at climatic extremes (cold / heat)
• Highly resistant to both abrasion and impact
• Absorb and deflect pressure – reducing injury to the surface and
to the falling object

12. -
Rubberised Asphalt Rails
Urban Furniture

13. ASSOCIAZIONE NAZIONALE TECNICI ENTI LOCALI
Urban furniture-restyling bus stop

14. SMART Tiles - Climbing Gym
Cortina D’Ampezzo (Italy)

15. THE STORY OF TYRE AND FOOTBALL

16. Comfort for players
SPORT
CITY
Improve quality of urban areas
6000 mq
30.000 tyres recycled for
each field
ENVIRONMENTECONOMIC
Work and investments
Artificial Turf

17. What is an artificial turf?
with elastic layer underneath
Traditional
Synthetic turf : Polyethilene
Infill materials : rubber granulate
sand

18. Concrete (CEMENT MORTAR)
Concrete is a construction material composed
by water, cement, aggregate (sand and
Gravel), and additives, done by:
- 6% air
- 11% portland cement
- 41% Gravel or crushed stone
- 26% Sand
- 16% Water
After water, concrete is the most widely consumed
substance on Earth

19. The impact of concrete (CEMENT
MORTAR)
Concrete components are consumed faster than
they can be replenished (resource depletion). The
world consumption of aggregates exceeds 40
billion tonnes a year. This is twice the yearly
amount of sediment carried by all of the rivers of
the world.

20. Use of RTMs in Concrete (CEMENT
MORTAR)
By substituting the virgin components with recycled
materials, such as:
- Rubber (from end of life tires) in substitution of
light weight aggregates
- Steel (from end of life tires) in substitution of steel
- Textile fibres in substitution of plastic fibers
It is possible to increase perfomance and reduce CO2 /kg

21. ETRA R&D projects workshops
With ANTEL in Italy
flex & the city program in
Turin, Venice and Naples
In Italy Turin and Rome and
next year in London
ETRA training workshops

22. Circular Economy Stakeholder
Conference
ETRA takes part to interactive workshops aiming to define the
features of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder
Platform.

23. Circular Economy :
ETRA contributes
Here some of the most significant suggestion made:
- Provide legislative coherence : CE, LCA, Waste Directives, REACH, etc.
- Avoid monopolization of the discussion by a group of stakeholders
- Define Incentives and Taxation
- Eco-design
- Technical Standards
- Encourage innovation and funding
- Matchmaking to promote investment and cooperation
- Create Commitments, Focus on results
- Define Targets, Milestones and Timeframe
- Communication, education, public awareness

24. REGIONAL CONFERENCE
the aggregates recycled in public
and private building works:
environmental and economic
opportunities
The National Association of Builders of
Piedmont and the National Association of
Recycled Producers of Piedmont have felt the
need to organize this Conference together to
"Tell" the Circular Economy process related to
the production of recycled aggregates and
their use in the Construction Works. In fact,
the need to recycle demolition and
construction waste has, for years now, been
acknowledged by the players in the
construction sector, however the diffusion and
use of recycled aggregates are still facing
many difficulties due to the limited demand. It
therefore seemed useful to organize a
constructive moment of discussion with
the involvement of public contracting
stations, together with the Piedmont Region,
the ARPA Piemonte, the Polytechnic of Turin,
the Order of Engineers of Turin and the ANCI
Piedmont, with the aim to come to concrete
measures to encourage the use of
recycled aggregates.

25. ETRA Annual Conference
ETRA every year organise in Brussels a world Conference
on Tyre Recycling
25 – 27 March 2020 will be the 27th Conference !

26. Thank you for your attention
Bruno Marabotto
bruno.marabotto@fastwebnet.it
www.etra-eu.org