ISSUE MONTHLY JOURNAL OF 08 TYRE RECYCLING JANUARY 2 0 1 2

Tyres Herco SA, will con- tinue in 2012 to help this issue solve one of the world’s most pressing environ- Open Source Revolution P.1 mental challenges, namely to safely and IT Management Tips P.2 productively recycle Non-Profit Solutions P.3 some of the one billion waste tyres produced in Trends & New Software P.4 the world each and every year.

Tyres Herco's state of How can I reuse or recycle Christmas How can I reuse or recycle Christmas the art factory is one of cards? wrapping paper? the most recently built and modern facilities in Shred pretty coloured wrapping paper to use Europe. Located in the The easiest thing to do with pretty Christmas cards is to cut out a square or rectangle from as colourful light but protective packaging Industrial area of Patras, around future gifts. is has easy access to the design to use as a gift tag on your pre- good road transport and sents next year – use pinking shears or cut Like newspaper, wrapping paper is great for two of the country's larg- out a wavy edged template to make them cleaning windows and leaving them streak- est Ports. more interesting. Taller strips could be used for bookmarks too. free – use it instead of paper towels or a cloth. (Avoid using the shiny/plastic stuff Nearly all manufactured though.) product is shipped by sea They can also be use to make spherical in containers. The facility Christmas tree decorations/cat toys! One for the kids: thin paper like wrapping houses a laboratory and paper is great for origami – use it to make an experienced technical One for the kids: Christmas cards are just the Christmas-themed decorations or to give to team committed to help- right thickness for loads of craft projects – friends. You can also cut out pictures of pen- ing customers formulate keep a stash for using throughout the guins, stars or cartoon characters to decorate custom products suitable year. Make little boxes to keep little things dull notebooks – or make decorations for next for their needs. (like erasers or badges) tidy, for the inside “rings” of pom-poms, or use them to make Christmas. stencils or templates. Our state of the art Source: http://bit.ly/tRBbMZ plant is located in Patras, Greece’s third largest port. It has a capacity of approxi- mately 21,000 tons of tyres a year - about 400,000 individual cas- ings - producing 13,000 tons a year of rubber granules and fine pow- der products. How the Airless Works

Whenever you think you've seen all of the strange automotive creations Rus- sia could conceivably have to offer something like this For more than 100 years, vehi- deform temporarily as the tire covered car with wings cles have been rolling along on spokes bend, then quickly cushions of air encased in rub- spring back into shape. Tweels appears to remind you ber. The pneumatic tire has can be made with different there is no limit to weird- served drivers and passengers spoke tensions, allowing for ness. well on road and off, but a new different handling characteris- design by could tics. change all that - the Tweel Spotted on display in Perm . More pliant spokes result in a City, Russia this car pushes more comfortable ride with the boundaries of weird improved handling. The lateral •In this article, we'll look at stiffness of the Tweel is also things that could be done to what the Tweel Airless Tire is, adjustable. However, you can’t a sports sedan. We just find why you would use it in place adjust a Tweel once it has of traditional , some of the it amazing that someone been manufactured. You’ll problems that may occur with a have to select a looks at an E39 and sees Tweel Airless Tire and where Tweel. For test- the opportunity to create you might see the Tweel Air- ing, Michelin something like this winged less Tire in the future. equipped an Audi sculpture instead of end- A4 with Tweels Michelin first announced the less hooning possibilities. made with five Tweel in 2005. The name is a times as much combination of the words tire lateral stiffness The fact no details are in- and because the Tweel as a pneumatic doesn’t use a traditional wheel cluded with these pictures, tire, resulting in hub assembly. A solid inner “very responsive beyond the fact the car hub mounts to the axle. That’s han- "consists of tyres", seems surrounded by polyurethane dling” [Source: fitting. We aren't really sure spokes arrayed in a pattern of Michelin]. wedges. A shear band is anyone could really explain stretched across the spokes, Michelin reports this strange and interesting forming the outer edge of the that “the Tweel creation. tire (the part that comes in prototype… is within five per- contact with the road). The cent of the tension of the shear band on and mass levels of current the spokes and the strength of pneumatic tires. That trans- the spokes themselves replace lates to mean within one per- the air pressure of a traditional cent of the fuel economy” of tire. The tread is then attached the tires on your own car. to the shear band. The Tweel Since the Tweel is very looks sort of like a very large, early in its development, futuristic wheel. Michelin could be expected to improve those numbers.

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Source:http://jalo.ps/sdfKa7 Beauty of Christmas How to Recycle Your X’mas Tree

WHEN it comes to decorating The next step is putting lights choices are red, gold and silver dressings were garlands and a Christmas tree there are on the tree where the rule of that are considered traditional,” that this should not make the some rules to follow and thumb is to use a box of lights he said. tree look too messy. choosing the right one is es- (100 bulbs) for every foot of sential as it should be able to the tree. Mak said decorations should “The total cost for decorations, last for years and not lose its be concentrated on visible including lights for a six-foot shape or leaves easily. “A commercial tree is usually areas of the tree and large tree is about RM500,” he said, double that number. Get lights items go on first, following a adding that those who were Being in the business of sup- with end connectors so that rough zig-zag pattern. interested in learning to deco- plying trees and decorations to you will have one long string of rate can do so at Glister with the purchase of their trees. malls, department stores, busi- lights rather than many short “Large decorations can be nesses and the public, Glister ones. anything from blooms to bau- Fashion Sdn Bhd managing bles to the relatively cheap Meanwhile, those interested in director James Mak provides “These days, LED lights are option of ribbons. These getting a live tree this year, can some insights into how to preferred because it doesn’t pieces are considered the focal head to Ikea at Mutiara Da- decorate a Christmas tree. get hot,” he said. points of the tree,” he said, mansara where Scandinavian adding that a two-and-a-half Christmas trees are being sold At Glister, in Jalan Tun HS For large trees, Mak said wind- inch wide ribbon would be at RM129 for a 160cm tree or Lee, Kuala Lumpur, one can ing the lights into the inner good for a six-foot tree. RM169 for a 250cm one. check out the variety of trees branches starting from the available such as the Jack middle of the tree would help Then, small decorations are Bring these trees back to the Pine, Majestic Fir, Canadian brighten it. used to fill in the bare spaces store at the Exchange & Re- Pine, Oregon Fir and the ever on the tree. turns counter between Jan 1 popular Scotch Pine that is “Always start decorating from and 15 and it will be shredded value for money, according to the top and take a step back to be reused as fuel while Ikea Mak. “Personal items like photo donates RM10 to the Malay- every now and then to look at frames and special ornaments the tree. sian Nature Society for every can also be hung. Larger items tree brought back. “Buy a tree according to your should go on the lower parts of budget and available space. “The key to a pleasant looking the tree,” Mak said. Source: http://bit.ly/sedC7P Ideally, a tree should be at tree is balance in decoration,” least a feet-and-a -half lower he said. than the ceiling,” he said, add- As for plain baubles, he said ing that shoppers should follow they were used as fillers hung their heart where the type of After that comes the tree top- on the outer branches. tree is concerned. per where traditionally people will use stars or angels while “The shiny ones should be modern ones even include hung on the inner branches so Mak said some may opt for flowers. fibre optic trees but those had it reflects the lights that you its weaknesses including over- have weaved in there earlier.” heating if used for long periods “At this point, you should de- he said. as well as having less cide on the tree’s colour branches for hanging decora- theme. Try not to pick more Lastly, Mak said the tree’s final tions. than four colours. Safe colour Christmas Trees Recycled Into Fish Habitats Across US

Around the US, Christmas trees are recycled for an unlikely purpose: they make for good fish habitat.

From southern California to South Carolina, fish and wildlife agencies have been col- lecting Christmas trees with plans to use them in lakes and waterways to create protec- tive habitats for small fish.

In Wyoming, the trees will be dropped through designated holes in the ice at Ocean Lake in late January.

In South Carolina, Christmas trees will be used in Lake Hartwell. “By recycling used Christmas trees in Hartwell Lake, we provide cover for fish and enhance nursery habitat for juvenile fish,” Jess Fleming, a park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told the Anderson Independent Mail. “The trees are also beneficial to aquatic insects, which are essential food for most fish species.”

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife spokesman Jeff Ross said that lakes contain woody habitats that rot away with time, and Christmas trees can help replenish those habitats.

Similar programs exist in Georgia, Montana, and other locations all around the country.

Christmas trees are also used to boost habitat for land animals, and for coastal wetland restoration projects.

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Tyres Herco Issue 08 January 2012

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