The renowned in the tire recycling industry British magazine Tyre & Rubber Recycling, its Chief Editor Ewan Scott and a correspondent Richard Wilson, run a podcast exposing interesting topics and announcing updates to the tire recycling and pyrolysis industries. In the Tyre Recycling Podcast, Ewan Scott interviews key players from the tire recycling and pyrolysis industry from around the world. Make sure to subscribe for Tyre & Rubber Recycling magazine to receive updates about its interviews!

In Podcast 66, Chief Editor of Tyre and Rubber Recycling Ewan Scott speaks with CEO Trevor Bayley of Australian tyre pyrolysis operator Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) to find out the project's current status as the business gets ready to expand.

Episode 66 of the Tyre Recycling Podcast with GDT’s CEO Trevor Bayley. | Video by Tyre & Rubber Recycling magazine.

Interview chapters:

  • 00:00 – Introduction
  • 00:29 – GDT Background
  • 01:31 – Welcome to Trevor Bayley
  • 01:57 – Treating whole tyres
  • 02:10 – Main output is higher quality oil
  • 02:58 – Dealing with the Char
  • 03:38 – Carbon isn’t Carbon
  • 01:11 – Oil to the refinery
  • 05:17 – rCB misnomer
  • 05:54 – People do claim that their output goes straight into rubber
  • 06:25 – Legislative hurdles
  • 07:15 – Low sophistication leads to environmental issues
  • 07:48 – Pyrolysis is a single word with 100 definitions
  • 10:00 – We were not allowed to expand, but allowed to continue
  • 10:10 – The next steps
  • 10:38 – Treading Water
  • 11:04 – Positivity about tyre recycling
  • 11:22 – Starting to order parts for the balance of the Warren plant
  • 12:09 – Work on Queensland plant due to start
  • 12:30 – International interest in the technology
  • 13:42 – Positive that GDT is close to running a commercial plant
  • 15:38 – A long road from 2009
  • 15:46 – Summary

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