Knowledge Agora



Similar Articles

Title Optimization of the end-of-life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts
ID_Doc 26332
Authors Duval, L; Majeau-Bettez, G; Saunier, F; Marechal, F; Margni, M
Title Optimization of the end-of-life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts
Year 2024
Published Journal Of Industrial Ecology, 28, 3
Abstract This study contrasts two different approaches to inform European-scale decision-making to mitigate the environmental impacts of the end-of-life tires (ELT) management system. The first analysis is a traditional life cycle assessment (LCA) that compares the environmental performances of the 12 main available European end-of-life (EOL) technologies in ELT processing while restricting the boundaries to the EOL stage. The second analysis has a broader scope, addressing the optimization of the ELT distribution within the 12 considered pathways to minimize the environmental impacts of the total tire use in Europe under present capacity and constraints. The results of the traditional LCA show that, except for landfill, all the tested EOL routes present environmental benefits. Material recovery pathways bring the most environmental credits, whereas civil engineering pathways are the least promising. The LCA results that emerged from the optimization of ELT management technologies yield two optimal technological mixes that maximize the quantity of ELT recycled in molded objects production: such results represent a hypothetical case with no constraints. When considering constraints, that is, limitations on maximum quantities of ELT that can undergo retreading, pyrolysis, or recycling in synthetic turfs, in molded objects and in production, the number of optimal technology mixes increases to five. The type of technologies favored depends on the minimized impact categories (climate change, fossil and nuclear energy use, human health, and ecosystem quality). A comparison between constrained and unconstrained scenarios shows that achieving the best environmental performances is conditional to the accessibility of the EOL technologies as well as their individual environmental impacts.
PDF https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/jiec.13474

Similar Articles

ID Score Article
9871 Dabic-Miletic, S; Simic, V; Karagoz, S End-of-life tire management: a critical review(2021)Environmental Science And Pollution Research, 28.0, 48
8318 Bianco, I; Panepinto, D; Zanetti, M End-of-Life Tyres: Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Treatment Scenarios(2021)Applied Sciences-Basel, 11.0, 8
28927 Gigli, S; Landi, D; Germani, M Cost-benefit analysis of a circular economy project: a study on a recycling system for end-of-life tyres(2019)
28045 Lonca, G; Muggéo, R; Imbeault-Tétreault, H; Bernard, S; Margni, M Does material circularity rhyme with environmental efficiency? Case studies on used tires(2018)
23269 Tauberova, R; Marticek, M; Knapcikova, L Selected Innovative Approaches In The Waste Tyres Management(2022)Acta Logistica, 9, 4
904 Pomili, L; Fabrizi, A Automotive Recycling: A Circular Economy Centre(2020)Environmental Engineering And Management Journal, 19, 10
1874 Lee, SY; Hu, JY; Lim, MK Maximising the circular economy and sustainability outcomes: An end-of-life tyre recycling outlets selection model(2021)
9946 Magagula, SI; Lebelo, K; Motloung, TM; Mokhena, TC; Mochane, MJ Recent advances on waste tires: bibliometric analysis, processes, and waste management approaches(2023)Environmental Science And Pollution Research, 30.0, 56
3623 Landi, D; Marconi, M Investigating a Circular Economy Application: Reuse of End of Life Tire Fibers in a Plastic Compound(2022)
4762 Symeonides, D; Loizia, P; Zorpas, AA Tire waste management system in Cyprus in the framework of circular economy strategy(2019)Environmental Science And Pollution Research, 26, 35
Scroll