“Towards A Sustainable Society” Approaches to the Closed Loop of Tire Recycling

Recently, the studies for recycling technologies have been increasing based on the viewpoint both of environmental issues and securing of raw material. For tire recycling in Japan, thermal recovery is one of main usage of tire recycling. The thermal recovery, however, has the potential to emit the CO 2 . Therefore, tire recycling root should be re-considered and to find more better environment friendly root. Material recycling of tires has been conducted by using of rubber powder or reclaim rubber. Chemical recycling are new activities for tire recycling technology. This paper shows the status of recycling activities of tires and challenge to closed loop of tires.