Objective
Scrap tyres represent both a waste problem and a resource opportunity; both for the society and for the large recycling trade community. Annually in Europe 360 million car tyres enter the waste stream representing annual waste load of 2,5 million tons and in 1999 39% of all scrap tyres ended on landfills. Living close to stockpiles represents a danger to life and health especially due to improper stockpiling and fires with results in air emissions and increased leaching of chemical compounds. In addition, many disease-carrying insecte prefer stockpiled tyre environments as their breeding ground and represent a threat to life and health as well as reduced quality of live. The Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control lays down measures concerning waste designed to prevent and reduce emissions to air water and land. Directive 2000/52/EC on end-of-life vehicle aims at the prevention of waste from vehicles primarily through reuse and recycling of materials. Our project will directly contribute to these directives. The objective of Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste is to provide measures, procedures and guidance to prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects on the environment. According to the Landfill Directive, landfill of scrap tyres are prohibited by 2003 and by 2006 landfills of shredded rubber will also be prohibited. Our project will therefore directly contribute to the Landfill Directive with respect to achieving recycling and recovery of materials and safeguarding natural resources. Our project also complies with the work programme for horizontal Research Activities para 9.3 Collective Research with specific relevance to the Objectives of the Specific programme. The project involves specific activities covering a wide field of science and technology that will in the interest of large communities of SMEs both engaged in the tyre recycling sector and rubber moulding and extrusion sector.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering waste management waste treatment processes recycling
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
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Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-SME-2
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
BJORKELANGEN
Norway
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