“Planta de tratamiento de neumáticos fuera de uso que contribuya al mejoramiento del medio ambiente en la cuidad de Ambato”

Abstract

The entrepreneurship project has the objective of demonstrating the feasibility and viability to implement a plant of treatment of tires out of use. The purpose is to recycle this waste and subject it to a crushing process that separates its components such as rubber, steel, and nylon in order to obtain granulated rubber as the main product. The entrepreneurship contributes to the Ministerial Agreement No.098, published in the Official Register No.166 on April 6th, 2015, that mentions the Instructive for the Integral Management of Used Tires, where producers, importers, marketers and service centers that use this product must reduce waste through the reduction, reuse, recycling and other forms of valorization, so they must ally themselves to an authorized manager who carries out these processes. This investigation consists of a market study that let knowing the unsatisfied demand of the main product, granulated rubber, the market segment of this are the footwear companies of the city. With a technical study that allows selecting the production process and a financial study, that shows the viability of the project. Finally, it is concluded that the project will generate a positive social impact, creating a recycling culture, helping the city to reduce landfills. Economic, it will create sources of employment contributing to the economy of the country. Environmental, because the tires out of use will have an effective handle, reducing in this way the environmental contamination.