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Tytec Recycling, Australia, has announced that it would open the world’s first environmentally-friendly off the road tire recycling operation this year. The facility will employ a new Edison Award-winning technology to make high-quality marketable steel, diesel oil and carbon out of the old earthmoving tires used in mining and agriculture. “We’re currently on track to begin OTR recycling in June 2016 and will open our purpose-built recycling center in Perth in January 2017, then Queensland soon after,” said Brett Fennell, at Tytec Recycling.

Now, using Edison Award-winning technology from the Green Distillation Technologies Corporation (GDTC), Australia, Tytec Recycling will convert these outworn tires into steel, diesel oil and carbon. GDTC has developed a proprietary destructive distillation technology capable of recycling end-of-life tires of all varieties into saleable commodities of carbon, oil and steel. GDTC recovers up to 85 percent of the unused energy in an end-of-life tire in the form of carbon and oil without pre-processing and is completely emission free.

The only waste stream is heat. All products from the tire recycling process can be used. The oil can be used as a heat source, blended with fossil fuels, used to make carbon black, instead of fossil fuels or further refined into other usable hydrocarbon products. The carbon can be used as a heat source or an agricultural additive, the steel goes into the scrap steel market. There is a strong potential for using the waste heat in the generation of electrical energy, rendering the process entirely waste free.