The car of recycled rubber of Ecopneus on board of the TrenoVerde reaches Palermo
Ecopneus collected and managed about 18,000 tonnes of End-of-Life tyres in Sicily in 2018. This is equivalent to the weight of 2 million automobile tyres. If we were to put them in a row, we could create a line that is about 1,000 km long: the distance from Palermo...
Further “extra” 11,000 tonnes of End-of-Life Tyres will be collected by Ecopneus beyond its legal target
Ecopneus will extraordinarily collect a further 11,000 tonnes of End-of-Life Tyres beyond its legal target during this last term of 2018. This amount is to be added to the over 3,000 “extra” tonnes of ELTs already collected between August and September. The extra...
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...
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...
Public Administration’s “green” purchases: the monitoring on the real level of application starts
Starting from 2ndFebruary 2016, the Italian Public Administrations are obliged to insert their goods and service suppliers’ environmental qualification criteria in their purchasing policies (Green Public Procurement or GPP) for an order of any amount. This is a...
Project Tyreplast: creating new materials by merging recycled rubber and thermoplastics. Welcome to the era of the eco-innovative materials.
Some of the greatest inventions of the past century were born precisely from the union of very different materials, which gave rise to something completely different and revolutionary: products with improved characteristics, more and more performing and sustainable...
“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...
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...
National Council of the Green Economy: a resolution on the Paris COP 21 agreement and decision approved
During the meeting of last February 10 at the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, the National Council of the Green Economy of which Ecopneus is a member presented, discussed, amended and approved a resolution on the Paris COP 21 agreement and...
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