Bede a écrit : > with the rising cost of oil these will eventually become valuable > resources, > Its also only a matter of time before we start mining our rubbish dumps! > > There's also a French company i saw on Beyond 2000, it had to do with > turning tires back into its raw components. > once again once bought back, it cost more to process than the end > products where worth.
Bonjour, I didn't heard about it but I know that a part of non-re-usable tyres are recycled in France as materials for road making (noiseless, water draining), drainage pipes or combustibles for industry or thermic power plants. But it's only a part of refused. Not far from my home, a former career will be filled with tyres for long time stock. Tyres recycling in France is the business of this organisation : http://www.aliapur.fr/ English brochure : http://www.aliapur.fr/0-uploads/english_brochure.pdf PEHD, PET and ABS are industrialy re-used once as textile fabric ("polar wool", car components or many other not-for-food purposes) I guess that many other uses are planned but not enough to solve problems. 101 chemical ways of plastic recycling are described [in french] by the french gov agency for environment ( http://www.ademe.fr/htdocs/publications/publipdf/plastiques.htm ). Simple energetic use is often not available dued to chloric or heavy metallic parts in plastics. Many URL about this. Plastic wastes recycling is a rising industry in Europe. More money to manage wastes than to reduce their consuption business is business frantz from france _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
