The recovery of large, medium and small End Of Life tyres

The collection of small, medium and large ELTs of Ecopneus in 2024

Tipology of ELTs	Collected amounts in tonnes, as of 31st July 2024
Small ELTs (< 33,25 kg) Such as those for Motorbikes, Scooters, Quads, MP3s, Enduros, Automobiles, SUVs, LCVs, Caravans	2.523
Medium ELTs (from 33,25 kg to 147,25 kg) Such as those for Trucks, Buses, Traction Units, Trailers	1.265
Large ELTs ( > 147,25 kg) Such as those for Industrial, agricultural, earthwork	87

Watch also the data of large, medium and small ELT collection in 2023

The collection of small, medium and large ELTs of Ecopneus in 2023

Tipology of ELTs	Collected amounts in tonnes, as of 31st December 2023
Small ELTs (< 33,25 kg) Such as those for Motorbikes, Scooters, Quads, MP3s, Enduros, Automobiles, SUVs, LCVs, Caravans	146.045
Medium ELTs (from 33,25 kg to 147,25 kg) Such as those for Trucks, Buses, Traction Units, Trailers	38.392
Large ELTs ( > 147,25 kg) Such as those for Industrial, agricultural, earthwork	3.008

Watch also the data of large, medium and small ELT collection in 2022

The collection of small, medium and large ELTs of Ecopneus in 2022

Tipology of ELTs	Collected amounts in tonnes, as of 31st December 2022
Small ELTs (< 33,25 kg) Such as those for Motorbikes, Scooters, Quads, MP3s, Enduros, Automobiles, SUVs, LCVs, Caravans	179.070
Medium ELTs (from 33,25 kg to 147,25 kg) Such as those for Trucks, Buses, Traction Units, Trailers	48.402
Large ELTs ( > 147,25 kg) Such as those for Industrial, agricultural, earthwork	4.367

Watch also the data of large, medium and small ELT collection in 2021

The collection of small, medium and large ELTs of Ecopneus in 2021

Tipology of ELTs	Collected amounts in tonnes, as of 31st December 2021
Small ELTs (< 33,25 kg) Such as those for Motorbikes, Scooters, Quads, MP3s, Enduros, Automobiles, SUVs, LCVs, Caravans	154.558
Medium ELTs (from 33,25 kg to 147,25 kg) Such as those for Trucks, Buses, Traction Units, Trailers	42.566
Large ELTs ( > 147,25 kg) Such as those for Industrial, agricultural, earthwork	3.367 (yearly collection target: 3.229 tonnes)

The management of the collection of small, medium and large ELTs

About 350,000 tonnes of tyres reach their end of life in Italy every year. They derive from the replacement of tyres of the circulating vehicles: the data highlight that about 30 million automobile tyres are placed on the spare parts market every year; moreover, another 2 million tyres for trucks, 3 million tyres of 2-wheeled vehicles, and over 300,000 tyres for the industrial and agricultural vehicles.

The latter represent a small quota compared to what is placed on the overall market: about 0.9%. However, by looking at the percentage in weight compared to the total, the quota goes up to over 4%. This is due to the large dimensions and subsequent weight of this typology of End-of-Life Tyres.

As it is easy to imagine, the characteristics of this typology of tyres require a high level of specialisation and technical equipment from the part of the companies that deal with tyre collection, transfer, and transport to treatment centres. They also require important management efforts to guarantee that all these End-of-Life tyres are correctly recovered all over Italy.

Finally, even the areas where large the End-of-Life Tyres are generated (farms, quarries, industrial sites) are usually located outside large urban centres or in places which cannot be easily reached. This makes their collection even more expensive and complex.

Also for these reasons, the effort of Ecopneus is even more important, as it guarantees ELT collection all over the national territory, small islands included, and their recovery and recycling from the part of the treatment companies part of the Ecopneus chain.

Relationship between withdrawal requests received and requests processed

The map at the bottom of the page contains the data referring to the relationship between the ELT withdrawal requests entered into Ecopneus’ computer system by the spare parts operators (tyre dealers, service stations, garages) and the withdrawal requests processed by Ecopneus through its partner companies. Any deviations between the two values may be due to the way in which the ELT withdrawal requests are handled, as the withdrawal requests received may in some cases be handled in the following month. Visit also our page on the monthly trend of ELT collection to find out the data of Ecopneus’ ELT collection of ELTs month by month, for each Italian Region.

Relationship between the collection requests entered into the Ecopneus IT system and processed collection requests

Data updated as of 31st May 2024

Region	Collection requests entered	Processed collection requests	Relationship entered requests/ processed requests
Abruzzo	842	692	82%
Basilicata	246	183	74%
Calabria	625	486	78%
Campania	2.614	2.440	93%
Emilia-Romagna	2.179	1.717	79%
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	353	280	79%
Lazio	4.204	3.808	91%
Liguria	1.527	1.519	99%
Lombardia	5.122	4.283	84%
Marche	890	767	86%
Molise	224	207	92%
Piemonte	2.448	2.429	99%
Puglia	1.764	1.547	88%
Sardegna	782	628	80%
Sicilia	3.891	3.593	92%
Toscana	2.152	1.947	90%
Trentino-Alto Adige	641	432	67%
Umbria	336	256	76%
Valle d’Aosta	41	39	95%
Veneto	2.635	2.104	80%
TOTAL	33.516	29.357	88%

Find out more about the data referring to the collection requests received and processed in 2023

Relationship between the collection requests entered into the Ecopneus IT system and processed collection requests

Data updated as of 31st December 2023

Region	Collection requests entered	Processed collection requests	Relationship entered requests/ processed requests
Abruzzo	1.746	1.628	93%
Basilicata	650	510	78%
Calabria	1.680	1.311	78%
Campania	5.838	5.313	91%
Emilia-Romagna	4.659	4.074	87%
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	810	688	85%
Lazio	8.873	8.536	96%
Liguria	2.626	2.589	99%
Lombardia	11.609	10.655	92%
Marche	1.848	1.638	89%
Molise	474	446	94%
Piemonte	3.797	3.773	99%
Puglia	4.633	4.203	91%
Sardegna	1.651	1.415	86%
Sicilia	8.658	8.314	96%
Toscana	4.881	4.253	87%
Trentino-Alto Adige	1.361	1.252	92%
Umbria	600	559	93%
Valle d’Aosta	66	68	103%
Veneto	5.151	4.595	89%
TOTAL	71.611	65.820	92%

Find out more about the data referring to the collection requests received and processed in 2022

Relationship between the collection requests entered into the Ecopneus IT system and processed collection requests

Data updated as of 31st December 2022

Region	Collection requests entered	Processed collection requests	Relationship entered requests/ processed requests
Abruzzo	1.961	2.015	103%
Basilicata	624	762	122%
Calabria	2.038	2.209	108%
Campania	7.199	7.335	102%
Emilia-Romagna	5.685	5.796	102%
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	935	1013	108%
Lazio	10.335	10.211	99%
Liguria	2.670	2.653	99%
Lombardia	13.257	12.967	98%
Marche	2.082	2.181	105%
Molise	541	543	100%
Piemonte	3.530	3.462	98%
Puglia	5.587	5.779	103%
Sardegna	2.078	2.242	108%
Sicilia	7.946	7.976	100%
Toscana	5.544	5.877	106%
Trentino-Alto Adige	1.433	1.443	101%
Umbria	704	694	99%
Valle d’Aosta	81	81	100%
Veneto	5.297	5.545	105%
TOTAL	79.527	80.784	102%

Find out more about the data referring to the collection requests received and processed in 2021

Relationship between the collection requests entered into the Ecopneus IT system and processed collection requests

Data updated as of 31st December 2021

Region	Collection requests entered	Processed collection requests	Relationship entered requests/ processed requests
Abruzzo	1.625	1.592	98%
Basilicata	539	481	89%
Calabria	1.919	1.766	92%
Campania	5.933	6.089	103%
Emilia-Romagna	5.017	4.947	99%
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	1.025	884	86%
Lazio	6.920	7.110	103%
Liguria	2.510	2.491	99%
Lombardia	12.760	12.393	97%
Marche	2.226	2.108	95%
Molise	457	468	102%
Piemonte	4.348	4.300	99%
Puglia	3.082	2.982	97%
Sardegna	2.024	1.857	92%
Sicilia	5.347	5.346	100%
Toscana	4.462	4.528	101%
Trentino-Alto Adige	1.434	1.142	80%
Umbria	813	833	102%
Valle d’Aosta	175	177	101%
Veneto	4.869	4.268	88%
TOTAL	67.485	65.762	97%