Collection from historical stock

Before the entering into force of the Decree 82/2011 in September 2011 and the subsequent obligation to implement an ELT collection and recovery system at national level in Italy, large amounts of ELTs were left at collection or treatment companies. Often following events bordering illegality, these large amounts of ELTs have left burdensome issues to tackle: they are the so-called “historical stocks”.

The same MD82/2011 forces the current ELT management bodies, such as Ecopneus, to destine at least 30% of the end of year fiscal surplus (if present) to intervene on “historical stocks”. However, among the various bodies in charge of ELT management in Italy, Ecopneus is the only one who has put such great effort into this task: since 2012 to today, Ecopneus has acted on 15 different historical stocks all over Italy. So far, it has handled over 84,000 tonnes of ELTs,equal to the weight of about 7 million single automobile tyres – a volume capable of filling over 80 Olympic swimming pools.

Thanks to the work of Ecopneus, the historical stocks of large dimension in Italy have been substantially all emptied.

Summary of collection of ELTs from historical stocks

Intervention n°	City	Collected tons	Completion date
1	Ferrara	7.617	March 2012
2	Oristano	2.107	June 2012
3	Olbia	821	November 2012
4	Buccino (SA)	3.416	November 2012
5	Poviglio (RE)	1.509	April 2013
6	Aulla (MS)	1.204	May 2013
7	Sassofeltrio (PU)	1.979	July 2013
8	Scisciano (NA)	8.483	October 2013
9	Battipaglia (SA)	3.372	November 2014
10	Eboli (SA)	3.204	April 2015
11	Rapolano (SI)	1.907	May 2015
12	Napoli	6.135	May 2016
13	Castelletto di Branduzzo (PV)	37.564	October 2017
14	Villa Literno (CE)	4.390	October 2018
15	Olbia	921	December 2018