NBA’s champion, Danilo Gallinari, on the basketball court in Milan for “We playground together”: the playground will be realised in rubber recycled from ELTs
Danilo Gallinari is an Italian basketball player among the most famous in the world. In collaboration with the Sports Department of the City of Milan, he has decided to turn into reality an idea he has had for a long time. Indeed, he has personally been involved in...
At Festambiente sport is played on recycled rubber!
This year Festambiente will have a new sports area. Obviously it will be done its way, with a state-of-the-art 3x3 Tyrefield basketball court made with over 4,000 kg of recycled rubber from End-of-Life Tyres. Thanks to Ecopneus, the main company responsible for ELT...
3×3 basketball reaches S. Benedetto del Tronto
The Finals of the 2018 33BK Streetball Tour will be held in San Benedetto del Tronto on 3rd-5thAugust. It is a 3×3 basketball tournament that crossed Italy from the North to the South during the months of June and July. The tournament has now reached the beautiful...
Ecopneus will collect 3,000 tonnes of ELTs beyond its legal target
Ecopneus is the non-profit company responsible for the management of the majority of End-of-Life Tyres in Italy. It has announced an extra target collection: by the month of October, they will collect 3,000 tonnes of End-of-Life Tyres beyond their legal target to...
Tyres: End of life? Never!
The General Manager of Ecopneus, Giovanni Corbetta, was a guest at Uno Mattina on Rai1. He told the public about the many applications of recycled rubber: sports, acoustic insulation, playgrounds and, above all, modified asphalts, which were at the centre of today’s...
The Project LIFE Refibre: the final results have been presented
Refibre is a LIFE project co-financed by the European Community entitled: “Recycling of textile fibres from end-of-life tyres for the production of new asphalts and plastic compounds”. The REFIBRE project is co-ordinated by Steca spa, a company in the Province of...
Modified asphalts and LIFE Nereide project: workshop in Pisa on 16th and 17thJuly
The latest updates on the LIFE Nereide Project and the main topics related to the sustainability of the materials used for the construction of road and train infrastructure will be discussed during the workshop: “Sustainability assessment of transport infrastructure:...
Basketball and environment are meeting on the court in recycled rubber in Verona
During the Streetball Week, two days of 3x3 basketball challenges with dunks, dribbles and rebounds will be waiting for all basketball lovers on the basketball court in recycled rubber located in Porta Catena, in Verona, next weekend. Not only this court is as...
From recycled rubber the perfect silence that celebrates music
End-of-Life Tyres and classical music: what is the possible relationship between such distant elements, which are apparently at the antipodes of a hypothetical scale of proximity? The meeting point exists. It is in Parma, at the Music Production Centre “Arturo...
Recycled rubber football pitches for the n 1 of football
Sport and environment meet on the state-of-the-art synthetic turf football pitch made with recycled rubber from End-of-Life tyres of the Sports centre“Bernardini” of the city of Rome. A technology that complies with UEFA’s, FIFA’s andthe Italian. National Amateur...