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Australia has the answer to recycling
bulky off-the-road tyres
The construction of the world’s first recy-
cling plant for off-the-road tyres is close
to becoming reality, according to the Aus-
tralian companies Tytec Group and Green
Distillation Technologies. They have jointly
established Tytec Recycling and expect
work on the plant in Perth to begin by Feb-
ruary 2018.
The new recycling facility will rely on
a ‘destructive distillation’ process to
transform the large end-of-life tyres into
oil, carbon and steel. Green Distillation
Technologies (GDT) estimates that every

3.5 tonne tyre will yield 1,500 litres of oil
and 1.5 tonnes of carbon. This means that
recycling benefits are ‘considerable’.
‘The Australian recycling potential for
off-the-road tyres is a fraction of the world
market,’ points out GDT’s chief operating
officer Trevor Bayley. Citing the company’s
participation at the major event MinExpo
in Las Vegas, he notes that enquiries
came flooding in from mining companies
in Mexico, Columbia and Chile as well as
Canada, Brazil and America.
Australia’s off-the-road tyres represents ‘the

tip of the iceberg’ of what’s out there, Bay-
ley stresses. ‘One individual South American
mine operator we met has more dump trucks
than all those operating in Western Australia
today,’ he added. What such companies lack
is an economic means to properly dispose
of the tyres known to have a diameter of 4
metres if not more.
‘We believe that we can play a key role in
helping to introduce this unique locally
developed technology to the world,’ says
Tytec Recycling chairman Brett Fennell.

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World e-cycling market worth
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The global electronics recycling market is expected
to exceed more than US$ 76 billion by 2022,
according to new date by Market Research Engine.
This represents a compound annual growth rate of
more than 23% in the given forecast period.
The upsurge in e-cycling around the world is
mainly said to be due to an increase in urban
mining as well as the rise of consumer electron-
ics consumption and more political awareness
regarding sustainable practices. The need for
more efficiency in collection methods is hailed
as a ‘restraining factor’, as are illegal exports of
hazardous waste and the need for more advanced
recycling technologies.

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New scheme to boost Singapore’s
e-scrap collections
In a bid to boost the electronics
recycling rate in Singapore, the
Singtel x SingPost E-waste Recy-
cling Programme was launched at
the start of this week to coincide
with World Environment Day. With
its population of 5.5 million peo-
ple, Singapore is the second-big-
gest producer of e-scrap per capita
in Asia, after Hong Kong.
Called ReCYCLE, the new scheme
is a collaboration between Singa-
pore’s two leading ICT and postal
companies Singtel and SingPost.
Unwanted devices such as mobile
phones, laptops and tablets, as
well as related accessories like
chargers, cables and batteries, can
be dropped off in ReCYCLE bins at

selected retail outlets and also post
offices.
The ReCYCLE initiative is designed
to recover valuable metals and
boost reuse of post-consumer
devices. According to the two par-
ticipating companies, this equip-
ment is currently either incinerated
or landfilled at Pulau Semakau, an
island located to the south of Sin-
gapore. According to statistics from
Singapore’s National Environment
Agency, the country generated
upwards of 7.67 million tonnes of
solid waste in 2015 for an increase
of 159 000 tonnes over the previ-
ous year. The increase in electronic
devices in use also means higher
volumes of e-scrap.