Bridgestone companions with LanzaTech on end-of-life tire recycling applied sciences

Bridgestone Americas is partnering with LanzaTech to deal with end-of-life tire waste. The 2 corporations will co-develop the primary devoted end-of-life tire recycling course of leveraging LanzaTech’s proprietary CCT (Carbon Seize and Transformation) expertise, making a pathway towards tire materials circularity and the decarbonization of recent tire manufacturing.

In accordance with the Tire Trade Venture working underneath the umbrella of the World Enterprise Council for Sustainable Growth (WBCSD), a couple of billion tires globally attain the tip of their helpful service life annually. Bridgestone and LanzaTech will work to deal with this concern by changing end-of-life tires into new supplies, together with exploring processes to create sustainable artificial rubber that doesn’t depend on petrochemicals.

LanzaTech and Bridgestone are working collectively to seek out options to a few of our world’s best challenges. We now have already confirmed that we will convert unrecyclable, unsorted municipal strong waste to ethanol after which make merchandise we use in our every day lives. With our partnership with Bridgestone, we’re growing a round pathway to make use of tires to make tires. This partnership exemplifies what we name a Submit Air pollution Future.

—Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO, LanzaTech

Bridgestone and LanzaTech search to develop a brand new enterprise mannequin that can create a post-consumer waste administration technique for end-of-life tires, whereas additionally driving elevated adoption of sustainably sourced chemical substances for industrial functions.

Making use of LanzaTech’s carbon seize and fuel fermentation course of to end-of-life tires yields sustainably produced chemical substances similar to ethanol that may be transformed to supplies similar to PET for packaging, polyester yarn and surfactants utilized in client dwelling items like laundry detergent.

As well as, Bridgestone and LanzaTech will collectively discover alternatives to co-develop proprietary microbe expertise to supply extra environment friendly pathways to supply butadiene, a key ingredient in new tire manufacturing, realizing true circularity for end-of-life tires.

Bridgestone is aiming to attain carbon neutrality and make tires from 100% renewable supplies by 2050. The corporate is actively researching a variety of options to assist the recycling of supplies from end-of-life tires and promote the alternative of non-renewable supplies similar to oil, silica and virgin carbon black in new tires.