Current EU waste policy is based on a concept known as the waste hierarchy. This means that waste should be prevented and what cannot be prevented should be re-used, recycled and recovered as much as feasible. The aim of moving towards a recycling society means moving up the hierarchy, away from landfill and beyond recycling and recovery.
![Current EU waste policy is based on a concept known as the waste hierarchy. This means that waste should be prevented and what cannot be prevented should be re-used, recycled and recovered as much as feasible. The aim of moving towards a recycling society means moving up the hierarchy, away from landfill and beyond recycling and recovery.](/cms/tygremedia/images/oo_flash_2020/Objectives.png)
The overall goal of "coping with the availability of resources" is applied in the current 7FP call by promoting projects aimed at developing technologies for recovering high added-value products from selected waste streams.
![Transformation process from waste to materials](/cms/tygremedia/images/concept/transformation-485x277.gif)
In line with this last aspect, our proposal focuses the attention to the problem of the waste tyres, by promoting their treatment through the development of a thermal process mainly devoted to the production of ceramic materials. Such a project defines a recycling scenario that mainly concerns three principal elements (a particular INPUT waste material, an innovative thermal PROCESS and a high added value OUTPUT material) which will be thoroughly analysed.