About us
We seek new productive alternatives through (ELTs) end-of-life tires, guiding us with creative thinking, innovative recycling processes and optimized management.
We are a company that manages the entire process of recycling tires at the end of their useful life. Used tires are cleaned, shredded and granulated, and the original components are separated for rough production of rubber, steel and textile fibers. Rubber granules, dust and granules are recycled quality uniform products with fantastic properties in the production of other construction and everyday products.
We own and sell the latest and innovative technologies in tire recycling machinery and infrastructure to achieve an effective used tire process, turning waste tires into usable and innovative products.
From our beginning, the idea of recycling was supported by the present and the uncertain future of our children. We are professionals from various fields who, in pursuit of a future, are committed to the environment, the need to live better and leave a better world for the next generation. Garbage is a reality, but it can be transformed into an opportunity and that is why we are on a mission to create the opportunity. Be aware that a future of GARBAGE WITHOUT GARBAGE is built in action.
Problem that the company seeks to solve.
The massive manufacture of tires and the difficulties in managing them constitutes one of the most serious environmental problems in recent years in Panama and around the world. A tire needs large amounts of energy to be manufactured - half a barrel of crude oil to manufacture a truck tire according to Waste Ideal (Spanish Plan for the recycling and reuse of end-of-life tires, 2007) - and it also causes, if not conveniently recycling, environmental pollution by being part, generally, of uncontrolled landfills.
According to the data analysis of a study carried out by the Commission of Economic Affairs of Panama, in the presentation of the preliminary draft of Law 101 in 2020 -2021, for the promulgation of Law No. 33 of 2018, «That establishes the policy of Zero waste and its framework of action for comprehensive waste management ”and data from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Panama, the following was analyzed: Annual tire discard in Panama:
- Annual tire discard in Panama: 1,300,000 units.
- Average annual tire waste growth: 200,000 units .
- Scattered in the environment: 390,000 units per year.
- Average annual Vehicle Patenting (2016-2020): 50,000 cars, with a growing trend in the last semester of 2020. This reference value applies to the estimation of the annual waste growth rate, as shown in graph I:
GRAPHIC I
Panama is a tropical country and the disposal of used tires is considered a big problem from the point of view of public health, since nine out of ten end up abandoned in open dumps or in clandestine deposits, decorating each municipality of the country and becoming the ideal shelter for rodents and mosquitoes that transmit dengue, Zika and Chikungunya.
Another risk to public health is burning them indiscriminately in the open, which generates the release of chemical compounds that harm human health.
Inadequate deposition by piling them increases the risk of fires, whether intentional or accidental, and once they do catch fire it is very difficult to control and extinguish them.
Burning tires can last for months and generate smoke, oil and leached toxic pollutants that do not dissolve and are not biodegradable, affecting the soil, aquifers, and rivers. For this reason, many countries have banned the disposal of tires in landfills or landfills.
This is so because the tires have been designed to withstand strong mechanical and meteorological conditions, and also have a high calorific power, making it difficult to extinguish if there is a fire, since it is made of natural rubber that originates from most of the Hevea brasiliensis tree and synthetic rubber from petroleum. Both materials are combined with other products to provide strength, flexibility, and various required characteristics.
Solution
The company was born with the intention of responding to a need, to recycle all those tires that are currently abandoned in landfills in Panama in an uncontrolled and illegal way, those stored without being given any use and all those that are produced every year or import.
The solution is based on the concept of Circular Economy. It is the non-linear economy, based on the principle of closing the life cycle of products, services, waste, materials, water and energy. It is a low-carbon economy that generates new jobs.
In addition to contributing to these tires not being incinerated in the open in an uncontrolled manner.
3 types of products will be marketed:
- Recycled tire dust.
- High quality steel.
- Nylon fibers.
The grinding of rubber tires is used mainly for the manufacture of floors, sports pavements and synthetic courts, recovering the steel and the remains of the fabric of the structure.
The extraction of raw material will come from:
- Companies dedicated to the sale of tires.
- Landfills.
- Illegal stockpiles.
The benefits that will be obtained through the business will be mainly:
- Pollutant Waste Reduction: There will be less light tire waste dispersed in the city.
- Environmental Protection: Reducing the amount of incinerated tires improves air quality and by reducing the stockpile, the amount of a product which is not biodegradable is reduced (it takes more than 600 years to decompose).
- Job creation: The creation of 6 to 8 jobs is estimated at the installation of the first recycling plant.
THE MARKET
Recycling of end-of-life tires (ELTs) has an emerging global trend, driven primarily by the adoption of shredded rubber for construction that can be used in place of extracting natural sand. According to the research report published in March 2020, by Transparency Market Research, the global market for tire recycling products stood at a valuation of around 4.2 million dollars in 2020, where the global market is expected to show a rate moderate annual growth of 3%, reaching approximately USD 5.5 Trillion by 2027.
| THE MARKET | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 |
| Tires Recycling | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 5.2 |
«A future of GARBAGE WITHOUT GARBAGE is built on action.«
R-Group Recycling Companies.
«The dichotomy between development and sustainability is false. Without a planet, there is no economy that is worth it ».
Al Gore (1948-X). American politician and environmentalist.
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