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Domestic Waste Management
50-60m car and lorry tyres enter the UK waste tyre market every year. Until recently, a significant proportion of waste tyres were shipped to recyclers in developing countries. As these markets start to deal more with their own domestic waste management, many of these governments have begun to tighten emission and dumping regulations.
We are a visionary company with a plan to make use of this valuable resource by transforming the way car and truck tyres, and other rubber related wastes are recycled, dealing with the problem locally.
The thermochemical process is environmentally friendly and complies fully with all UK and European waste directives. The increasingly tight regulations for disposing of tyres gives us a key commercial advantage over alternative methods of tyre disposal.
We want to be a key partner in helping energy and manufacturing companies to reduce their dependency on traditional fuel sources.
We are working closely with the Helen Mcarthur foundation and in the process of securing ISCC accreditation.
We use a thermochemical process conducted at 400-600°C where tyres are shredded and heated without air, converting the rubber into oil and gas while separating out steel wire and the carbon char.
The diesel, carbon and steel are recovered without mining or drilling. The lower refining, treatment and transport processes, together with the removal of a pernicious waste from the environment, gives a double benefit against normal and established sources of these materials.
Our technology can be broken down into a 3-step modular cascaded process where we transfer the rubber of used tyres into raw materials. This makes a significant contribution to the Circular Economy of tyres.
Our 3 step process:
- Step 1 : Pre-treatment where the tyres are selected, cleaned and chipped to 15 cm pieces to prepare them. The steel and other components are removed.
- Step 2 ; The thermochemical process breaks down the rubber into carbon, oil and gas at a working temperature of approximately 500oC in an oxygen free environment.
- Step 3 ; Reworking the oil from step 2 to produce TDO (Tyre Derived Oil) via condensation, distillation and multi-stage filtration processes, prior to being used as fuel for a wide range of industrial applications.
Where waste can be an opporunityWhat comes out of the tyre?
There is a substantial market for our reclaimed materials.
The recycled oil can be sold at competitive prices to a variety of industrial customers. It also reduces the requirements for fossil fuels from other sources.
The properties of char are similar to coal, yet char contains considerably less sulphur than most bituminous coals and thus has 25% more British thermal units (BTUs).
A commodity that is always in high demand as well as being a valuable waste metal.
