Waste & Climate: portrait of E-cover

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SUEZ and MakeSense joined in 2014 to create Future of Waste, the program devoted to solutions alternatives of reduction, reuse and recycling of waste. On the occasion of the COP21 Future of Waste mobilized and launched its first Impact program Waste ; Climate, aimed to impress on the public the link between global warming and waste, and to help entrepreneurs to enhance their positive impact on the climate. Each week, open_resource call Future of Waste for a portrait of contractor of the Waste ; Climate program.

in Senegal, the device of collection and treatment of used tires is largely insufficient. Thousands of tires are thus stored in the nature, or burnt, with strong dangers to the environment and human health. The start-up E-cover address this problem by transforming used tires in new products, in particular building materials.

in Senegal, in urban areas, stake it grows today with the habits of the consumer society, where emphasis is more focused on the purchase of products is renewing constantly, most often without mentioning what happens to waste. The quantities of improperly treated waste are actually colossal. For example, there are today in Senegal

nearly 70,000 tons of waste plastics

in nature. Used tires are another type of commonly encountered waste, and their accumulation represents a danger to the environment due to the emission of toxic fumes fire.

start-up E-cover

E-cover is a start-up based in Dakar, Senegal, which aims to enhance the present waste in landfills by turning them into new products: a circular economy model, which creates value by reducing waste.

the first activity of E-Cover is the recycling of tires, thus making this widespread waste of a resource. Tires are composed of a complex alloy, they present a high potential income when they are valued. The most common method for "recycling" is to burn them to retrieve the metal they contain, but this method is not ecological. In this context, E-cover has developed a process of ecological cutting, grinding recycling and compaction of recovered tires. The first products made by E-cover are grouped within the'RE-tires' range which includes floor coverings, tiles and tiles made from recycled tires...

E - Cover today seeks to industrialize and streamline its manufacturing process and launched a campaign of crowdfunding to acquire the machinery needed for this.

alternatives that valorise waste

for construction materials the design of construction from processed waste materials seems to open a wide range of innovation. Thus pave ' Stic, an another start-up based in Senegal, recycle plastic waste in cobblestones; GreenWood an Indian start-up uses from straw from the culture of the rice - usually burned - to produce accessible construction materials.

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