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1. Products to be recycled
These are end-of-life products or manufacturing waste. For manufactured products, production in France in 2021 is estimated at 246,000 t for tires and 294,000 t for industrial rubber. .
The situation is very different depending on the type of product.
1.1 End-of-life tires
At the end of their life, tires are sorted and some of them can be reused or retreaded.
Retreading is a widely practiced operation for truck tires (typically one or two retreads). These operations can be carried out directly by the tire manufacturer.
The retreading...
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Bibliography
Websites
Lehigh Technologies
https://www.lehightechnologies.com
Northstar Elastomers – Tirecycle™ process
LEVGUM process – YouTube video
Patents
Chemplast – GumTec – EP 1362 681 – 04/06/2002
Goodyear – Novotny – US 4104205 (1978)
Hunt – US 5578700 (1996)
Vredenstein – US 5425 904 – 05/12/90
Michelin – EP 2337693 – 06/29/2011
LEVGUM LTD – US 6831109 – 04/26/2001
Zhang Yuncan – US 20090082475 – 09/22/2008
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Bolder (United States)
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