An example the size of the end-of-life (EOL) tyre stockpile generated in the State of Victoria, Australia, is approximately 88,000 tons per annum equaling 11 million tyres (Sustainability Victoria commissioned market analysis 2013-2014). According to available data only 18% of these are domestically recycled!

 

One of the great environmental problems facing governments in most countries is the problem of waste tyres .

Up until recently, waste tyres were either:

• Used as landfill – which has been banned now almost worldwide because of environmental and toxic pollution

• Burned if furnaces as fuel – banned in most countries because of toxix smoke and pollutants

• Shredded and reused in various forms – current method, but grossly inefficient

• Pyrolysed – existing technologies still problematic, producing polluted heavy oil and low quality carbon black.

• Currently, Australia produces around 250,000 tons of EOL tyres each year and, up to recently, waste tyre collectors are exporting around 26% of these to foreign countries.Also immoral to pass  an environmental problem onto any other country.

 

The processing plant, is capable of processing 5,000 tyres per day with the plant operating 24/7 with minimal downtime for maintenance (huge problem for other plants!)

The computer controlled continuous operation requires minimal man power.

 

From 10,000 tons processed yearly the plant will produce, by weight:

 

• appr 35% Diesel (equaling over 5 million litres)

• appr 37% Carbon Black (processed into briquette)

• appr 13% Recyclable Steel

• appr 9%   Gas (reused)

• appr 4%   Water (recycled)

• appr 2%    Impurities (sold as fertilizer)

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Commercial Use of Products

 

The Diesel will be used for vehicles, trucks, machinery, etc. Currently in Australia 91% of the Diesel is imported, and refining will be totally phased out. The TRP Morwell Group is ideally placed to fill in this gap. The relatively clean carbon briquettes are environmentally friendlier alternatives to coal based briquettes. Bitumen from plastics is a base material for road building.