25.01.2012
New revolutionary tyre recycling product unveiled
The UK automotive industry now has the potential to become a major contributor to waste recycling, thanks to revolutionary technology developed by eco-manufacturer and recycling specialist Remarkable.
With road transport still one of the biggest sources of pollution in the UK, the fact that more than 100,000 worn tyres are removed from cars, vans and trucks daily in the UK alone compounds the negative image of the automotive industry.
Eco-inventor and businessman Ed Douglas Miller, who recently appeared in Channel 4’s programme The Secret Millionaire, took all this into consideration when coming up with new recycling ideas and processes for his British manufacturing business, Remarkable. The company, based in an eco-factory in Worcester and specialising in taking waste and turning it into new and innovative products, has come up with a brand new technology which provides an ideal solution for the automotive industry looking to improve their eco-credentials with closed loop recycling.
Ed Douglas Miller explained the technology behind this great new invention: “Tyres are traditionally very difficult to recycle as they are designed to be extremely durable, resistant to chemicals and they don’t melt like plastics. They have spectacular performance; however the tread does wear down, loose grip, become unsafe, and they can be punctured. Unfortunately this means that approximately 25 million tyres are wasted in the UK each year.”
Ed continued, “There is much more awareness now about eco-driving and reducing waste from ELV’s (End of Life Vehicles), but I still felt that there wasn’t a recycling process in existence which could effectively re-use materials found in tyres, and so with the team at Remarkable I have spent two years designing and inventing our own way to turn tyres into new products and help put a stop to them being unnecessarily buried.”
Remarkable has invented a completely new technology in its eco-factory that enables waste tyres to be turned into a new and flexible material, with the unique ability to change the surface colour, enabling them to up-cycle it into a great range of new products.
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