Waste Tire Management: Lebanon Case Study

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Fast development of automotive industry and rising vehicle use is giving rise to large amount of waste tire production and generation worldwide. Tire waste management continues to be a growing crisis over most developing countries due to insufficient funding, poor infrastructure and absence of effective legislations and policy framework. Waste tire management is challenging in Lebanon due to wide use of vehicles with minimal amount of tire recycling. Being a relatively new stream of waste and with less priority from government, the waste tire management in Lebanon is at infancy stage, and needs appropriate and aggressive policies, plans and strategies. This paper investigates Lebanon’s specific issues and options for a viable long-term waste tire management strategy through studying the feasibility of three different options to reduce tire waste. The three different alternatives studied are: Tire Retreading, Tire Shredding, and Tire Pyrolysis. Current practices, potential technologies, and successful systems from foreign nations were evaluated to draw conclusions and recommendations regarding which technology is most applicable to Lebanon and which aspects of a waste tire management system needed to be newly implemented or continued to be used and improved. Taking into consideration the survey results, retreading seems an interesting way to treat waste tires in the study area.. Keywords Tire Pyrolysis, Tire Retreading, Tire Shredding, Waste Tires.

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