Recycled rubber modified Asphalts: The Italian answer to noise pollution
Recent decisions of the European Commission highlight delays and non-compliances with reference to noise pollution in our Country, which now risks being deferred to the European Courts of Justice. However, in our opinion, there is already a solution for the roads,...
First 2018 stop of the ELT Academy Ecopneus, in Varese
The ELT Academy Ecopneusstarted in 2013 and is now on its 14thedition. It is an important training moment where the management of End-of-Life tyres is discussed with the Police Forces and Control Bodies with the belief that training, study and analysis on legality...
From sound landscapes to the designing of a theatre: an innovative course of applied acoustics at the auditorium of Festambiente, thanks to Ecopneus
The National Centre for Sustainable Development “Il Girasole” of Legambiente in Rispescia (GR) will host a two days’ training course promoted by Ecopneus to get to know acoustics and learn to build sound educational workshops. The choice of the location is not casual....
Rubber recycled from ELTs among the materials provided for by the Minimum Environmental Criteria for the construction, renovation, maintenance and energy requalification of public buildings.
The Decree of 11thOctober 2017 of the Ministry of the Environment has recently been published on the Official Gazette. This Decree contains the “Minimum Environmental Criteria (MEC) for the awarding of the services of designing and realisation for the construction,...
The Ecopneus strategy for promoting applications of recycled rubber included among examples of European excellence
What is the state of the art in Europe on the uses of rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres? What news awaits us in the near future; what are the market trends and the opportunities to diversify the outputs of supply chains? These are the questions at the centre of...
Recycled rubber from end-of-life tyres: safety analysis on its use as artificial turf field infill
Rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres and its use as infill for artificial turf fields Artificial turf fields are currently composed of carpets of strands of synthetic grass (PE or PP) kept upright by an “infill” of sand and elastic granules of various kinds,...
End-of-life tyres become a 7-side football field and a tennis court donated to the municipality of Pollica
Two new sports fields made of rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres for the municipality of Pollica, donated to the administration by Ecopneus, the non-profit company that is among the primary managers of end-of-life tyres in Italy, which inaugurated a 7-a-side...
“Snap back” the Terra dei Fuochi: the photographic contest that gives a new life to a corner of your city
The initiative, in fact, is tied to the Protocol for the extraordinary collection of abandoned tyres in the provinces of Naples and Caserta signed by the Ministry of Environment, which has been charged with the “Terra dei Fuochi” (Land of Fires) area by the Ministry...
A gym made of rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres for the Apulian school that won the 3rd edition of the Educational Project of Ecopneus and Legambiente
A gym made of rubber recycled from end-of-life tyres for the winning school of the competition “For a correct recycling of end-of-life tyres”, the educational project of Legambiente and Ecopneus – the non-profit company among the principal managers of end-of-life...
TYRE PURCHASING: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR CONSUMERS
An environmental regulation was introduced in summer 2015 that extended the group of people who can be held legally responsible for the management of waste: this responsibility no longer refers only to those who have materially generated/produced a waste, but also to...
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