A Major Leap for Michelin Aiming for 100% Sustainable Tyres by 2050

On average, 1.6 billion car tyres are sold world wide each year resulting in circa 800,000 tonnes of PET fibres being used as structural components within the tyre. Michelins’ share of this tonnage is reported to be equivalent to 3 billion standard plastic bottles! Using an enzymatic process from Michelin’s new partner, Carbios, this process aims at braking down these used PET materials to help Michelin create the world’s first 100% sustainable tyre. Moving from the old thermomechanical process of braking down tyres, the new enzymatic process will also create the same high quality virgin PET materials resulting in no loss in quality!

We hope to see these tyres out and about on the road soon and look forward to Michelin achieving their goal of 100% sustainable material sourcing by 2050 which isn’t too far away!