News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

British company Protyre agreed to conduct clearance of thousands of scrap tires that were illegally stockpiling at the Brockdale nature reserve near Pontefract. The firm started the clear up last month. Irresponsible traders left most of the tires. Protyre volunteered after it noticed the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s post urging public to help remove scrap tires as the charity didn’t have substantial funds and time to do that.

According to the recent announcement by the authority, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) issued $2.2 million in grants to seven companies in the state under its Tire Incentive Program to supports recyclers’ efforts to manufacture products from waste tires.

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The decision of Kuwaiti company to engage in tire recycling business was made in 2017 when EPSCO commenced working with Weibold, an independent expert company focused on tire recycling & pyrolysis consulting and based in Vienna, Austria. To ensure success of EPSCO’s tire recycling project, Weibold carried out market studies, technical due diligence on equipment vendors, down-stream manufacturing evaluation, and pre-installation supervision.

Attempting to cut costs while launching a tire recycling or pyrolysis business, young companies often fall prey to low-quality equipment manufacturers whose equipment does not correspond to their promises. Typically, such a low quality equipment has far more attractive prices and very often it comes from Asian countries, where labor costs are still very low. Despite the low price, such an equipment can kill a young pyrolysis company or significantly undermine it’s operation. In this article Weibold focuses on issues of low-priced pyrolysis machinery and sheds light on the most common problems occurring with pyrolysis equipment suppliers from the Far East.

On February 21, 2020, South Africa’s Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries held consultation meetings dedicated to implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems for tire industry in South Africa. End-of-life tire accumulation have become quite an issue in the country, especially given that operations of the waste tire management authority, Redisa, were temporarily halted several years ago. The current report is written based on report by Dr. Ziboneni Godongwana, natural scientist working in the fields of solid waste management and recycling technologies, who personally attended the meeting.

Almost two decades ago TRA launched a unique audit initiative to rate its members ‘better than the rest’. Dubbed the Responsible Recycler Scheme, this audit programme aimed to provide the wider tyre industry, its regulators and the wider public with an assurance that TRA member companies complied with, and where appropriate, exceeded regulatory and best practice norms. Over the ensuing years, member audit scores have achieved very high levels of compliance leading the association to raise the bar even further particularly in areas of ‘best practice’. TRA reports that these new standards will be phased-in during the course of 2020 and will encompass new requirements for data validation, permit compliance and end-destination waste tyre tracking.

The global scrap tire problem has urged a number of business and researchers to seek advancement of circular economy. One of the global institutions that showed their concern with the issue is the Australian Road Research Board. It assessed on what level the sustainability is right now, and it looked at uptake of innovative recycled materials, including end-of-life rubber materials, in roads.

The event will become a perfect platform uniting tire and rubber industry professionals from all over the world. Experts representing all layers of the industry, as well as state authorities and scholars will share their perspectives on the state of affairs for tire recycling. They will also shed light on sustainability and what drives producers towards circular economy models, touch upon topics of tire-derived fuel, tire-derived aggregate, rubberized asphalt, ensuring safety at tire recycling plants, etc.