Waste tyres – a progress update

A few years ago I wrote a couple of posts about tyres, a sustainability headache that I hadn’t heard much about. I thought I’d revisit it to see if there was any update, but it appears that we’re not much closer to solving the problem, and the number of tyres produced every year has risen. Over two billion tyres are now manufactured every year, every one of them a big weight of non-biodegradeable mass of rubber and plastic. They can’t be recycled either, though they can be refurbished up to a po...