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Solving The Worlds Recycling Problems With HVO and BIO-Fuels
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
Recycling
One of the great problems facing governments in industrialised countries is the problem of waste plastic and tyres.
What happens to the Plastic you throw away?
Plastic is one of the most widely used and cheapest materials in the world today. You can find it anywhere. If it’s not made from plastic, it’s wrapped in plastic. We use around 5 trillion plastic bags a year worldwide! The US alone throws away enough plastic bottles in a week to encircle the world 5 times. Only 1 to 3% of all plastics used are recycled. After we use them, we throw them away.
Plastics are here to stay
Plastic is Forever. They are not bio-degradable. Can you imagine that since plastic was invented, everything that has ever been made from this material still exists? In around 700 years they will start breaking up. They will not decompose or biodegrade and get absorbed by nature. They will “photo-degrade” – which means they will turn into little toxic bits of themselves. Plastics are here to stay.
Interesting facts
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In the North Pacific Ocean, there are 6x more plastic debris than plankton. They are causing deaths to ur marine animals who mistake them for food.
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We have an island in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – which is mostly composed of plastic. It’s the size of India, Europe and Mexico combined.
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10% of the plastic we use yearly end up in the ocean. That’s equivalent to 700 billion plastic bottles!
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Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000 to 2,000 gallons of gasoline. One ton of plastic is around 25,000 plastic bottles.
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The production of plastic uses around 8% of the world’s oil production.
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90% of the trash floating in our oceans is made of plastic, around 46,000 pieces per square mile.
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Plastic is made from petroleum.
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Some of the components used to make plastic like phthalates and bisphenol A are harmful to our health.
Courtesy of Sky NEWS
End of Life Tyres
Worldwide more than 3 billion tires are dumped every year. And how many is already stockpiled on dumps?
Until recently, waste tyres were either:
1) Used as land fill – has been banned now in most countries because of environmental and toxic pollution.
2) Burned in furnaces as fuel – banned in most countries because of the toxic smoke and pollutants.
3) Shredded and re-used in various forms – current method but is inefficient.
As an example Australia alone produces around 250,000 tonnes of waste tyres each year and, up until recently, waste tyre collectors would export most of their product to China, but now no longer accepts.
A Tyre Shredding Plant in action.
Every day in UK over 100,000 worn tyres are taken off cars, vans and trucks. This totals about 40 million tyres (440,000 tonnes) per year – 1/3 of the 121 million (and increasing) in current use. About 70% of these tyres are diverted from landfill. About 26% are reused as retreads. 46% are reclaimed for other forms of reuse or recycling; or are incinerated for energy recovery', which is a low-grade, undesirable option that cannot be achieved without pollution and contribution to climate change. The remaining 28% are landfilled or stockpiled and are a major waste problem.
More than 250 million scrap tires are generated in North America each year, adding to more than 3 billion scrap tires already stockpiled.
About 80% of a tire is made from oil, a non - renewable natural resource.
About 8 out of every 10 tires in the United States wind up in landfills or stockpiles.
In Canada approximately 26 million tires are sold each year and an equivalent number is generated as used tires.
At the end of the millennium only in Western Europe the quantity of accumulated tires was greater than 2,500,000 tons. Most are sent to the sites of storage or are buried. The cost of burial is at least US $ 200 per tonne.
We have a large range of shredders available depending on the size of plant required.
Below are a couple of examples.
The Instillation Process
