LafargeHolcim and its Geocycle brand have plans to invest more than US$1m in new waste processing equipment in El Salvador.

The new equipment will be used to treat solid waste to supply alternative fuel for its cement production in the country.

Geocycle processes around 0.7m used tyres in 2018, bringing the company’s waste tyre use to 6m tyres since 2001, according to Jaime Recinos, director for corporate affairs and sustainable development at Holcim. It also processed 20,000t of waste from pharmaceutical, plastic, textile, chemical, paper and other manufacturing industries.