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Michelin says its goal of "achieving 40% sustainable materials (of renewable or recycled origin) by 2030 and 100% by 2050" is one step closer to reality. The French tire giant has successfully tested a plastic recycling technology by French biochemistry company Carbios that can be used in tire production.
So we now go from talk to actually seeing this in development and this is scheduled to happen in 2024. So when you think about what we ask tires to do, stay inflated in hot and cold while having a ton or two of weight at all times, not to mention heat cycles and what that does to tires. And lets discuss what sunlight does to plastic, would you trust recycled plastic tires in sunlight for 5 years? Prior to this plastic has not been able to be recycled for anything other then a filler or friendship brackets. In fact greenpeace official position is that plastic cannot ever be really recycled, once it is denatured the plastic will loose strength and not even hold water, but next year these tires that stay inflated and hold up tons of weight, will now have recycled plastic. So, they say they have figured it out, they "say" we are really to make our tires with recycled plastic. Michelin is in fact a top two tire here cooper being the other on this board according to the other poll.
So did Michelin nail it? Did they fully embrace what their customers are looking for? Isnt that important to you recycling stuff? Or did they blow it? Did the lose the locker room with this stunt that might really end wrong?
Michelin says its goal of "achieving 40% sustainable materials (of renewable or recycled origin) by 2030 and 100% by 2050" is one step closer to reality. The French tire giant has successfully tested a plastic recycling technology by French biochemistry company Carbios that can be used in tire production.
So we now go from talk to actually seeing this in development and this is scheduled to happen in 2024. So when you think about what we ask tires to do, stay inflated in hot and cold while having a ton or two of weight at all times, not to mention heat cycles and what that does to tires. And lets discuss what sunlight does to plastic, would you trust recycled plastic tires in sunlight for 5 years? Prior to this plastic has not been able to be recycled for anything other then a filler or friendship brackets. In fact greenpeace official position is that plastic cannot ever be really recycled, once it is denatured the plastic will loose strength and not even hold water, but next year these tires that stay inflated and hold up tons of weight, will now have recycled plastic. So, they say they have figured it out, they "say" we are really to make our tires with recycled plastic. Michelin is in fact a top two tire here cooper being the other on this board according to the other poll.
So did Michelin nail it? Did they fully embrace what their customers are looking for? Isnt that important to you recycling stuff? Or did they blow it? Did the lose the locker room with this stunt that might really end wrong?