Tire Waste and Recycling

Trevor Letcher, Valerie Shulman, Serji Amirkhanian
Elsevier S&T
650 pages
ISBN: 978-0128206850
April 2021

Tire Waste and Recycling takes a methodical approach to understanding how to manage, process, and turn waste tires into valuable materials and industrial applications. Sections cover fundamental aspects such as tire use, composition, trends, legislation, the current global situation, the possibilities for moving towards a circular economy, lifecycle options, treatment methods, and opportunities for re-use, recycling and recovery. Subsequent sections of the book focus on specific technologies that enable the utilization of waste tires in the development of high value materials and advanced applications. Lastly, the future of tire recycling is considered.