Diseño de suelas de calzado mediante la reutilización de los neumáticos

Abstract

In Ecuador, one of the wastes that could be used for recycling and which present an incorrect final disposition within the different cities are the tires out of use (NFU). At present, the absence of specific legislation and the lack of information among the various agents in the sector, such as the business sector, has meant that once the useful life of a tire has been reduced, only a limited percentage is recycled and used as raw material for other applications. That the rest has traditionally been deposited in landfills or simply accumulated without any control, with the consequent environmental risk.

The lack of used tire recovery programs causes them to accumulate in the open air or in garbage dumps, being the perfect habitat for the proliferation of mosquitoes or other insects and also degrading the environment. All this problem gave way to the idea of developing an investigation that can counteract it with an effective remedy with the application of the Integrator Project that aims to analyze and quantify this problem within the city of Ambato and give an alternative to it that is framed in the Designed to develop creative proposals through the reuse of tires for the soles of shoes, this project will tackle one of the exits to the pressing problem of the increase of rubber waste due primarily to the growth of the car park in recent years.

In fact the local market does not have a similar product, mainly because the companies dedicated to the shoemaking have not yet ventured into the reuse of tires for the use of this type of material in the soles of the shoes despite the great benefits they offer. Therefore, it would set a precedent for the companies dedicated to shoemaking to also enter into the reuse of tires specially focused on the production of footwear with this type of raw material reused that provides added value to their products.