The Cement Sector Provides Greenhouse Gas Reduction With The Use Of Alternative Fuel

TÜRKÇİMENTO, the umbrella Association of the cement sector, has pointed out that retired tires are used as an alternative fuel in cement production within the framework of the work carried out for a sustainable environment. The cement sector used 90 thousand tons of expired tires as an alternative fuel in 2016, which increased to 283 thousand tons in 2020. This way, the sector recovered 901 thousand tons of tires as fuel in five years.

On June 5 World Environment Day, Volkan Bozay, TÜRKÇİMENTO CEO, said in his statement on the issue: “As the cement sector, we use expired tires (ET) as an alternative fuel instead of fossil fuel, thereby reducing greenhouse gasses. With the use of expired tires in the last five years, we have prevented the release of 865 thousand-ton carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

Bozay stated that 67% of the tires used were imported from abroad in a trimmed form, as a sufficient amount of expired tires could not be obtained from domestic sources, and expressed the importance of increasing the utilization of alternative domestic sources in this regard.

Specifying that the sector carries out all its endeavors in cement production within the scope of permits and licenses obtained from the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Volkan Bozay made the following assessment:

“As the cement industry that converts industrial and domestic waste meeting certain criteria into value as alternative raw materials or alternative fuels, we are a professional solution partner in the waste management of our country. Certain waste having energy value can be used as an alternative to fuels like coal and petroleum coke that provide energy to cement plants, particularly expired tires. In the forthcoming days, we will share the results of our studies on the potential of environmental and economic benefits to be provided through the use of different waste.”