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Ambitious tyre recycler
Japan, South Africa, Pakistan, Thailand. Australia’s Green Distillation
Technologies successfully sells its solutions for end-of-life tyres to
fellow recyclers around the globe. The company, led by Trevor
Bayley, has now signed a deal for its first plant in the United States.
The US, like most countries around
the world, has a significant tyre dis-
posal problem and generates in
excess of 250 million end-of-life tyres
a year. In contrast, Australia is around
10% of that and the number of old
tyres generated in India and China is
An agreement sealed by Green
Distillation Technologies (GDT) in the
US provides funding of up to US$ 100
million (EUR 90 million) for the roll-out
of several plants, subject to the success-
ful operation of the first one, to process
used tyres into oil, carbon and steel.
A U T H O R Martijn Reintjes
Green Distillation Technologies’
Trevor Bayley in front of the tyre
recycling facility at Warren in western
New South Wales, Australia.
from Down Under
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