The NEW LIFE magazine is here

Cover of NEW LIFE magazine, used tyre recycling, rubber recycling and circular economy

80 pages full of information and interesting topics about recycled products made from ELT

Willich, 27.08.2020 "Turning old into new" - the NEW LIFE initiative consistently follows this credo. It has set itself the task of utilising recycled material from ELT (end-of-life tyres) as a sustainable raw material for high-quality products. In the new NEW LIFE magazine, the initiative now uses 80 pages of the best recycled paper to show what is behind the idea, what areas of application there are for the materials from old tyres and what the political position is on the subject.
The magazine takes the reader on a journey through the circular economy. Firstly, there is a clear introduction to the basic idea of the circular economy. It also explains what usually happens to tyres that have reached the end of their useful life. An important topic is "urban mining", which is all about the fact that currently used objects are the raw materials of the future. This means that entire cities serve as "warehouses" for raw materials.

Examples and opinions from politics and business

Was im neuen NEW LIFE Magazin natürlich nicht fehlen darf, sind zahlreiche Beispiele, wie bereits heute die Rohstoffe aus ehemaligen Reifen genutzt werden. Von der Fallschutzmatte auf dem Spielplatz über Bodenbeläge und Außenlampen bis hin zu langlebigen Laufbahnen für Sportler ist so manches dabei, das man auf den ersten Blick nie mit Reifen in Verbindung bringen würde. Auch die Möglichkeit zur Nutzung von ELT im Zusammenhang mit Kunstrasen wird genau beleuchtet.
In between, representatives from the worlds of politics and business have had their say in interviews with the magazine's makers. For example, Evelin Lemke from Thinking Circular, Dr Marie-Luise Dött from the CDU/CSU and Dr Bettina Hoffmann from the Green Party. Stephan Rau, Technical Managing Director of the Wirtschaftsverband der Deutschen Kautschukindustrie e.V. (wdk), also answered questions from the editorial team.

Naked figures at a glance

The facts and figures on the subject of tyre recycling are also very interesting. The number of tyres produced each year and the amount of recycled material produced in Germany alone is shown clearly and very comprehensibly.
The new NEW LIFE magazine can now be ordered free of charge here: https://initiative-new-life.de/magazin/
A PDF version is also available for download at the same link.

About NEW LIFE:

Partner von NEW LIFE sind Conradi+Kaiser living industries, Estato Umweltservice, Genan, ­KRAIBURG Relastec, KURZ Karkassenhandel, Melos, MRH und REGUPOL BSW. Alleine in der Bundesrepublik fallen im Jahr rund 583.000 Tonnen Altreifen an, die einer neuen Verwertung zugeführt werden müssen. Die ­daraus gewonnenen Recycling-Produkte, insbesondere Gummigranulate und -mehl eignen sich hervorragend für die ressourcenschonende Entwicklung innovativer Produkte in unterschiedlichsten Anwendungsfeldern. Diese Partner-Unternehmen der Kampagne NEW LIFE haben es sich zum Ziel ­gesetzt, nachhaltige Produkte aus ELT zu fördern und Menschen dafür zu sensibilisieren, bewusst zu konsumieren.

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Cover page of the NEW LIFE magazine

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