Javier de Jesús Landesa is Chief Operating Officer of TNU, the Spanish compliance scheme responsible for managing end-of-life tyres. In this opinion piece, titled “Recycling Isn’t Enough: Why Green Public Procurement Is the Missing Piece in the Circular Economy,” he argues that recycling tyres is only half the job; the circular economy doesn’t actually close until recovered materials (rubber granulate, retreaded tyres, recovered carbon black) find real buyers. He points to declining use of rubberised asphalt and a shrinking Spanish retreading industry as evidence that...
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