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People Fixing The World: Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

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Turning old tyres into football pitches and fuel

12/04/2022 GMT

Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

BBC World Service - People Fixing The World, Turning tyres into cheap fuel & football pitches

The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres

The entrepreneurs using clever chemistry to turn scrap rubber into fuel and car tyres.

Meet the entrepreneurs using scrap rubber to fuel cars and make new tyres.

Each year, over a billion car tyres reach the end of their life.

They’re notoriously hard to recycle and present an environmental hazard if left to disintegrate out in the open.

But around the world, people are trying to clean up their cities by finding new uses for the mountains of rubber waste.

In Senegal, a young entrepreneur is turning them into artificial football pitches. In Zambia, an engineer is perfecting a way to turn these tyres into diesel. And in Canada, a company is making new tyres out of old ones using some very clever chemistry.

Francois Wibaux delves into the solutions.

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