News: Tire Recycling & Pyrolysis

BlackCycle – the research project coordinated by Michelin and aimed to enable a massive circular economy of tires by designing world-first processes to produce new tires from end-of-life tires (ELTs) – is now followed by WhiteCycle project.

Grant applications are open for the $2 million federal and Victorian government-funded Victorian Circular Economy Recycling Modernisation Fund, covering recycling and remanufacturing of plastic, paper, cardboard, and tires.

The All India Rubber & Tyre Recycling Association's (AIRTRA) Vice President, Vishesh Agarwal, was interviewed by Tyre & Rubber Recycling Correspondent Satnam Singh for Episode 34 of the Tyre Recycling Podcast. Watch Vishesh talk about the future of EPR and tyre pyrolysis in India as well as his work with AIRTRA.

LD Carbon, a waste treatment and raw material recycling company from South Korea, announced on August 16th that it had succeeded in attracting 15 million USD of “Series A” investment. In this “Series A” of LD Carbon, Value System Asset Management participated as an anchor investor, and four investment institutions, including Korea Investment & Securities Co., Pentastone Investment & Elohim Partners, participated.

The West Australian Newspaper reports that one of the mining industry's lesser known environmental issues has finally found a solution with the opening of a $20 million-plus recycling factory in Jandakot.

The International Elastomer Conference (IEC) is the one place, one time a year, where attendees from tire manufacturing and tire recycling industries find the best of the industry all under one roof. It is an event where connections are made, knowledge is shared, new products, new technology and new ideas are introduced, business is conducted, developed and gained, fun is had, encouragement and empowerment happen, and the future is embraced.

A team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Australia have managed to replace 100% of conventional aggregates in concrete – such as gravel and crushed rock – with rubber from discarded tires that meets building codes, promising a boost for the circular economy.

Recent dismissal of PM Narciso's appeal of the Madrid Superior Court of Justice's decision by the Supreme Court of Spain (TSJM). This confirmed the ruling of the Investigating Court No. 5 of Majadahonda, which had sentenced him to three years and eight months in prison in 2020 for committing an environmental offense by assembling approximately 8,000 tires on a plot of land inside an industrial park in Majadahonda.

One of the oldest tire recycling plants in the UK is located at Ranskill, Nottinghamshire, where firefighters from that county have been battling a large outbreak. The yard of Boynton Brothers in Ranskill, close to Retford, is where the fire is thought to have started.