Kal Tire Recycling Facility Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification

Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group announced it has received International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certification verifying that its mining tyre recycling facility in Chile processes circular feedstocks.

“Kal Tire is committed to promoting a circular economy where recycled mining tyre products are given their highest and best use,” says Dan Allan, senior vice president Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group. “This ISCC PLUS certification ensures customers can confidently source our recycling facility’s outputs knowing they’re 100 per cent derived from waste materials.”

At Kal Tire’s facility in Northern Chile, end-of-life ultra-class tyres are converted to their base elements (carbon black, oil and steel) so they can be reused in new products instead of raw materials. The facility’s thermal conversion processes uses heat and friction to induce a process that sees virtually 100 per cent of the tyre reused. …

Source: Tyre & Rubber Recycling