13.10.2022
Vincenzo Pensa (President of the ELT Committee): “The synergy between business, consumers and PA has won. Discarded tires source of new value for circular economy and mobility “
“The management system for End-of-Life Tires from end-of-life vehicles demonstrates that a model based on the synergy between business, consumers and the Public Administration proves to be successful for the environment and the community, transforming end-of-use tires at the heart of a process virtuous industrial, which becomes a source of new value, in the context of a circular and sustainable economy and mobility “.
This was declared by Vincenzo Pensa – President of the ELT Committee – opening, this morning in Rome, the work of “The infinite value of ELTs”, the conference that took stock of the first ten years of activity of the “End of Life Tires Committee”.
“Every year – recalled Pensa – the ELT management system from end-of-life vehicles starts the recovery of tens of thousands of tons (more than 34 thousand in 2021 alone) of tires removed from demolished vehicles, involving – directly or indirectly – more of 11 thousand economic operators, including vehicle dealers, breakers, operators qualified for the ELT collection and management service and respective supply chains “.
“Tens of thousands of tons of end-of-life tires – concluded the President of the ELT Committee – which, in large part, are transformed into asphalts, road foundations, sports flooring, sound-absorbing panels for building and urban furniture”.
Between 2013 and 2021, the choice of recycling also allowed lower emissions into the atmosphere of over 512,000 tons of CO?, Through a system that is entirely self-financed through a modest contribution (7 euros, in 2022) to be paid. of those who buy a new vehicle.