Tire recycling plant opens in Uralsk

The small company extracts and produces rubber granulate, rubber powder and steel from scrap tires for re-sale as playgrounds and recreational facilities, grounds, asphalt roads, building products, flooring, injection molded products, industrial applications, noise insulation, collapsible paving tiles, and many other purposes and applications, 24.kz reports. The new venture is owned by Sergei Guber, a businessman, who also owns a network of auto service stations and Car City complex. At the present time the company is cooperating with partner maintenance stations in the city and tire fitting companies of the region. The plant's capacity is 4 tons of tires per day. Orders are already there. The new venture has created 10 new jobs. NOTE: Tires are among the largest and most problematic sources of waste, due to the large volume produced, their durability, and the fact they contain a number of components that are ecologically problematic. It is estimated that 259 million tires are discarded annually (for years in the 1980s and 1990s). The same characteristics that make waste tires problematic, their cheap availability, bulk, and resilience, also make them attractive targets for recycling. Nonetheless more than half of used tires are simply burned for their fuel value.