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The amount of rubber recovered through the recycling of 300,000 passenger car tyres is enough for top layer for 70 standard-sized riding arenas (20×60 m). This corresponds to an area of approx. 84,000 m2 – in comparison, Liberty Island in New York is approx. 60,000 m2.

Tyre recycling at Genan’s six factories can reduce CO2 emissions to the atmos- phere by 280,000 tonnes each year. This corresponds to the total amount of CO2 emitted by 100,000 normal passenger cars with diesel engine, each driving 15,000 km annually.

From the amount of steel recovered through the recycling of 7,000,000 passenger car tyres, you can produce approximately 7,350,000 kg of steel. This is about the same amount of metal used to build the Eiffel Tower.

Steel from worn-down tyres can be remelted with other types of steel and used in the same way as new iron.

Recycling 49,000,000 passenger car tyres could produce the same amount of rubber that, with the right catalyst and mixing ratio, could be used in the asphalt to build around 10,680 km of 7-metre wide roads. This corresponds to the circumference of the moon.

In the right configuration, rubber modified asphalt has 10-12% longer lifetime than ordinary asphalt without rubber.

The amount of rubber produced through the recycling of 210,000,000 passenger car tyres could be used to make enough rubber infill for around 9,187 football pitches with artificial turf. This corresponds to building 47 new artificial turf pitches with rubber infill in every country in the world.

For each tonne of tyres recycled by Genan, the climate is spared 700 kg of CO2 emission. This corresponds to the annual amount of CO2 absorbed by a forest area the size of two thirds of a full-sized football pitch.

If all 2,555,000,000 passenger car tyres were recycled, enough rubber could be produced to cover the entire city of Frankfurt in Germany with a 100 mm thick child-friendly playground surface.

Using recycled granulate from Genan as base layer in playgrounds achieves impressive HIC values, which means that the risk of head injuries to children from high fall heights is less than with other types of fall protection.