Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The Leading Journal for the Tyre Recycling Sector Tyre and Rubber Recycling provides the global tyre recycling sector with a regular free e-newsletter service At least 50 newsletters are produced each year detailing all the latest news and features from our pages To make sure you don’t miss out on the latest news stories from around the world please submit your details via the form below and we’ll happily add you to our circulation list RISORCE has generated 1.2m Euro investment to create a new tyre recycling plant in the Belgian province of Liege RISORCE will deploy a pyrolysis process that mainly produces oil as a byproduct from the tyres which will be sold as a raw material to European petrochemical companies Founder & CEO of RISORCE started; “RISORCE meets a need for local solutions in Belgium for processing tyre waste while at the same time being firmly committed to a circular economy approach “We are offering a locally-based solution that is both technologically and environmentally robust The funding is raised from a group of investors that includes GREEN.er (Recytyre), Liege investment fund Noshaq, Wallonie Entreprendre and others With plans to accommodate six waste tyre processing units on the site the project will process 18,000 tons of tyre granules annually equivalent to 2,400,000 tyres per year.  Chris Lorquet, CEO of Recytyre commented; “The traditional rubber recycling industry is at a turning point The future of material circularity lies in the chemical processing of tyre components “ An oblique reference to the recently imposed ban on crumb rubber infill Lorquet continued; “The RISORCE pyrolysis project is a fine example of this I am also very pleased that this initiative is based in Wallonia The GREEN.er fund was created to support the development of such industries at a local level.” This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page What did psychology student Jessie learn while working at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia And why is Noman from Yemen now studying political science in Leiden students have the opportunity to spend time abroad funded by a LUF grant Jessie and Noman talk about their remarkable experiences An abbreviated version of this article appeared in Leidraad, our alumni magazine. The full magazine is available online.  ‘The hospital was a bit like a dumping ground for the community’s unwanted’ ‘In a lecture on cross-cultural psychology in Leiden the lecturer told us that almost all psychological research is based on a very small part of the world’s population: most respondents are western so I arranged to do an internship at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia The hospital was a bit like a dumping ground for the community’s unwanted: people with all sorts of problems ended up there a psychotic patient killed two other patients It was a terrible incident and was unheard-of there too While I was there I learned that it isn’t just about practising psychotherapy; it’s all about gaining the patient’s trust. There was one woman who was confused and threw a bucket of paint over herself but took the time to wash the paint out of her hair and eyelashes you would leave a job like that to the nursing staff They hardly kept any medical records in the hospital so the staff had more time for the patients An internship abroad is even more of a learning opportunity because you end up in a completely different world Before I went abroad I had already decided that I wanted to work with traumatised former child soldiers and the internship only confirmed that.’ ‘The civil war in Yemen left me stranded in Egypt’ preventing me and many other Yemenites from returning home That was especially problematic for people who were ill I became involved in the Stranded Yemenis charity and helped raise money for cancer patients It’s partly because of this experience that I find issues such as civil rights and the status of migrants particularly interesting ‘I really wanted to study Political Science in Leiden because of the specialisation Nationalism It wouldn’t have been possible without the Kuiper-Overpelt Funds One of the conditions of the grant is that I have to share my new knowledge with local communities After my Master’s I want to work for an NGO in the Middle East and eventually help people in Yemen once things have settled down there But before that I also want to work for an NGO in Leiden It’s so important to be part of a close-knit community.’  Would you like to donate towards grants for talented students? Discover the possibilities at www.luf.nl/draag-bij. For more information, contact Eline Danker on 071 513 0503 or at e.danker@luf.leidenuniv.nl Photo courtesy of Save Our Schools Network Philippines – A school for a tribal community in a remote village in Bukidnon was demolished by about 50 armed men on August 26 the Save Our Schools Network (SOS) said Saturday belonged to the Mindanao Interfaith Services Foundation Inc Their statement said teachers witnessed the incident that happened around 7:15 am when they were on their farms when alerted by a student They arrived at the school seeing armed mean tearing down the school and tearing up textbooks “The teachers were about to take photos of the incident but were threatened by the ‘Bagani’ leader Lito Gambay who told them to leave as President Duterte will know about this,” SOS said on its Facebook post The two school buildings and a teacher’s cottage were built in 2007 and was funded by the European Union Aid and SFO-Overpelt of Belgium “The Save Our Schools condemn in strongest terms the unabated destruction and closure of Lumad schools in Mindanao,” the group said SOS said that the community has identified Gambay as a leader of the paramilitary called Bagani under the command of the Philippine Army’s 89th Infantry Battalion (89IB) The commander identified Gambay as a former New People’s Army fighter who surrendered to his battalion last year and is now a tribal warrior defending his community He has no 89IB identification card or a gun issued by the Army,” Trasmontero said Trasmontero said he has no paramilitary in his area of responsibility only the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit The army officer also said they have no hand in the demolition of the MISFI school buildings since it was initiated by the tribal community themselves He said the school has been vacated when the Department of Education has established its schools in Barngay Matupe where 52 former MISFI Academy students have transferred the 89IB has assisted government agencies in building schools for the lumad communities in at least seven tribal communities in San Fernando and Kitatao towns in Bukidnon But the SOS said the 89IB’s move is “hypocrisy” for not acting on the destruction of the tribal school yet paraded Gambay during the opening of the DepEd schools MISFI said its school in Laburon has the approval of the Department of Education (DepEd) “The school campus [in Laburon] is more than a decade old and has the Dep-Ed permit as Government Recognition status,” MISFI said The SOS said there have been 178 tribal schools in Mindanao that were forcibly closed by the government kalenderdo 23 juli 2020Oud-motorcrosser Dirk Geukens onverwacht overledenDroevig nieuws uit de motorcrosswereld Gisteravond overleed Dirk Geukens totaal onverwacht op 57-jarige leeftijd De crosser uit Balen was een tijdgenoot van Eric Geboers In 1990 en 1991 werd Geukens tweemaal derde in het WK 500cc Hij won in in die periode 2 Grote Prijzen.