Ecopneus’s Open Plants: in Cisterna di Latina the third year’s national information initiative starts on End of Life Tyres treatment and collection
In Lazio about 20 thousand End of Life Tyres (ELT) were sent to recovery in 2013 thanks to the work of Ecopneus’s partner companies, guaranteeing the correct recovery both of energy and of materials in applications of public utility. With this datum the 2014 edition...
Ecopneus Meeting at Asphaltica 2014. Verona, May 9th, 20124, 11 a.m.. We will be present at Pav. 11, stand E2-F2
Road traffic is the main cause of sound pollution in urban areas. Research and test activities aiming at reducing road noise are then of the utmost importance to improve the life and health conditions of the population more affected by such a source of disturbance. As...
The use of milled asphalt in road surfaces
The technical seminary aims at highlighting the potentialities offered by milled asphalt, an optimal resource to remake road surfaces, available in large quantities but scarcely exploited in Italy because of a complex regulation that with doubts and questions...
NOW! In Sciacca, the future is now! Stories of environment, legality, beauty
Environmental safeguard, legality, beauty. Those are the pillars to build a better future on, in which each of us can and must participate. Those are the key points of the Luca Pagliari show promoted by Ecopneus in collaboration with the Sciacca Municipality,...
The Multisports Centre 2A in Prato is the first in Italy with 4 fields made with Recycled rubber from End-of-Life Tyres
Four ribbon cuttings on Sunday in Prato, inside the Centro promozionale Polisportivo 2A (Multisports promotional Centre) affiliated with Uisp – Italian Association Sports for all: a poker of fields made with materials derived from recycled End-of-Life Tyres, where it...
Ecopneus: tenders for the contract assignment for the period 2015-17 are going to be opened
On December 31st, 2014, contracts between Ecopneus, the main responsible of ELT management in Italy, and companies assignee of existing supply contracts, will expire. For that reason, on March 24th the registrations for the period 2015-2017 will start for companies...
Thanks extraordinary ELT collections serious risks for the health and the environment in case of fire were prevented
Few days ago a fire started in the area of an ex-plant in Sassofeltrio, in the Pesaro-Urbino Province, and only a few hours later the Fire Brigade did succeed in making the area safe. The consequences for the environment and public health were limited thanks to...
By 2016 the largest Italian End-of-Life Tyres pile will cease being an ecological bomb
The 60.000 tons and more composing the largest Italian end-of-life tyres pile (roughly equivalent to 80 Olympic swimming-pools) will be definitively sent to recovery by 2016, preventing fire risks which could have devastating consequences for the environment and the...
Ministry of the Environment and Ecopneus for the Land of Fires – “The right way” against End-of-Life Tyres abandonment
Tell, move, and ponder: those are the three pillars of the day – promoted in the campaign “I choose the right way” – that developed at the same time at the Politeama Theatre in Naples – where Luca Pagliari, journalist, author and writer, illustrated a story of...
The campaign “I choose the right way” wins the Aretè Prize
Collect abandoned tyres in the territory to recover them and to remove “fuel” used to start toxic waste fires; inform citizens and consumers that buying “black” tyres fuels the phenomenon of their abandonment and, as a consequence, the phenomenon of toxic fires that...
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