India, March 12 -- Africa faces a growing environmental challenge with millions of waste tyres accumulating annually.

It poses health risks and contributes to pollution.

Small-scale recycling efforts like retreading and upcycling exist but they are insufficient to address the vast quantities of tyre waste.

Large-scale industrial recycling is sparse, highlighting the need for better policies and infrastructure to manage this issue effectively.

Across Africa, waste tyres are an urban environmental burden that are quite hard to miss. These wastes sit stacked behind garages, dumped along highways, or piled in open landfills where they sometimes catch on fire, sending thick black smoke drifting across entire neighborhoods.

The environment...