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California Tries Again on Recycling

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California Tries Again on Recycling

The California State Assembly voted on the 27th August to pass Assembly Bill (AB) 2908 by Assembly member Marc Berman. The vote to concur in assembly amendments follows the bill’s passage in the State Senate Aug. 23 and should be the final step before the bill heads to the governor.

California Votes on Tyre Recycling Bill

AB 2908 directs the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) to develop an incentive payment system to fund recycling end uses for waste tyres. AB 2908 also sets a 75 per cent recycling target for waste tyres, nearly double the current rate*, and updates the state’s tyre manifest system. While the new incentive program will be funded from the state’s existing tire fee ($1.75), the legislation also allows CalRecycle to assess a charge on the sale of new tires (not to exceed $1) to continue funding the regulatory activities of the department.

AB 2908 is the third attempt in four years to reform the state’s tyre recycling system.

“Californians generate 44 million used tyres every single year, and the illegal dumping of tyres is costly to clean up and can be a danger to the environment and public health,” Berman says. “Incentivising the remanufacturing of used tyres into consumer products and pavement material makes sense for the environment, jobs, public health and our bottom line.”

“California’s tyre recycling rate has been far too low for far too long. Providing incentive payments to end-users of recycled materials is among the most cost-effective ways to increase recycling, and it has been proven to work across different material types,” Nick Lapis, director of advocacy for Californians Against Waste, the Sacramento, California-based no-profit organisation that sponsored the bill, says.

* The US Rubber Manufacturers Association (RMA) recently issued a report detailing the progress of domestic tyre recycling efforts…  96% of the 230 million-plus tyres discarded last year were reused in several markets, it notes.

New Zealand Waste Tyre to Reinvent the Wheel

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New Zealand Waste Tyre to Reinvent the Wheel

The spectre of New Zealand’s waste tyre issue seems to just keep growing. Despite a working party has put forward a plan that would see a tyre recycling scheme financed through a tax on imports (New Zealand has no domestic tyre manufacturing, so taxing imports is the easy way to control the fees), the government has shelved proposals already available and has begun planning a scheme from scratch.

Is New Zealand’s Waste Tyre Issue Due to Grow?

Of course, the initial proposal mirrored the tax concept that was trialled in South Africa through REDISA, but with a different set of local factors, proposers claim that it would have worked in New Zealand.

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has announced a new work programme to tackle waste, despite one being drawn up years ago.

At the moment the vehicle owner pays a $5 levy to the retailer, say a tyre shop. They hold on to that $5 and use it to pay the recycler when they turn up to take away all the tyre shop’s old tyres.

But there’s scope for fake recyclers to scam the system.

In 2011, the National government asked industry members to find a solution and they did.

Their answer was for a $5 levy to be paid by the importer to a trust when the tyre arrives in the country. That money would fund an organised pick-up and drop-off system for all used tyres, and businesses would then bid for the supply of those tyres to use them in innovative ways.

UK Tyre Exporters to Expect Restrictions

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UK Tyre Exporters to Expect Restrictions

According to UK trade statistics, approximately £3 million worth of tyres is exported annually to other EU countries, including many in Eastern Europe, while just under £1.5 million worth are exported to non-EU countries, mainly India. It is worth remembering that these statistics have been shown to be underestimated by HMRC when compared to actual exports through one single company.

Restrictions Expected for UK Tyre Exporters

Peter Taylor explained that despite the export market being an important recovery route, the market needs to be better prepared for potential changes.

“We are over-dependent on export, most definitely, and the bulk of it goes to India,” Mr Taylor explained.

“Frankly, they have enough of their own, and if they don’t now then they soon will. The problem there is collections, it is easier to buy ‘waste’ than collect it yourself in India, but that will change soon, India has made moves on that already.

“We need to be prepared for that in a way perhaps the plastics people weren’t. You can’t switch these on overnight you need a business environment which is investable.”

The UK tyre export market needs to be better prepared for potential foreign import restrictions, according to Peter Taylor OBE.

Heavy Fine on Stawell Owner for Stawell Tyre Dump

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Heavy Fine on Stawell Owner for Stawell Tyre Dump

After what seems like years of ducking and diving to evade penalties, Australia’s EPA has finally managed to drag the former owner of the infamous Stawell tyre dump into the courts.

EPA Preparing to Fine Stawell Owner

After amassing a stock of over one million tyres the Stawell dump was abandoned by its owner creating a potentially huge risk to the local community and environment should there have been a fire.

Court action starting on 28th August is expected to see the ex-owner, Dr. Matthew Starr, hit with up to one million Australian dollars in fines. However, the EPA is pursuing further charges that could amount to as much as six million Australian dollars to cover the cost of the clean-up operation.

It took 380 truckloads to move 9500 tonnes of tyres over two months after the toxic stockpile had been the subject of a CFA fire prevention notice and three EPA notices.

Manitoba Approves 5-Year Stewardship Plan

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Manitoba Approves 5-Year Stewardship Plan

Manitoba’s Ministry of Sustainable Development has approved Tire Stewardship Manitoba’s five-year plan for scrap tyre management.

5-Year Stewardship Plan Approved

Tire Stewarship Manitoba Minister of Sustainable Development Rochelle Squires gave her official approval to TSM‘s five-year plan on the 28th July.

“The department intends to establish guidelines for third-party assurance of non-financial information to be reported by all approved stewardship program operators in the Province of Manitoba,” Ms. Squires wrote in her letter to TSM Executive Director Brett Eckstein.

Ministry officials will work with TSM to establish guidelines to provide the Manitoba government with reasonable assurance that key performance measures of the stewardship program are reported accurately, Squires wrote.

The ministry’s approval of the five-year plan is retroactive to July 1 and expires June 30, 2023. Ms. Squires told Mr. Eckstein to submit an application for approval of the next five-year plan by Jan. 31, 2023 to allow adequate time for review.

Change of Direction at Kingpin Tyres

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Change of Direction at Kingpin Tyres

A new era begins at Kingpin Tyres, the Shropshire tyre retreading firm has finally decided to call a day on its retreading operations and focus on recycling.

Kingpin Tyres Focus on Recycling

After 45 years in Wem, competition from budget tyres and the high price of raw materials has driven the company to rethink its direction. It has been collecting tyres as part of its retread operation, and for some time has been shredding those tyres it could not retread. So, the development of Kingpin Tyres into a full tyre recycling operation is an easy step for the firm.

Factory manager Mark Cartwright said, “The recycling – shredding – side of the business is very strong and we obviously continue to run the tyre collections.”

The firm was launched by Jack Crangle in 1973. His son Barry and daughter Deborah later took on the running of the firm.

Lyn Barrett Passes Away

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Lyn Barrett Passes Away

We would like to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family, friends, and colleagues of Lyn Barrett, the Advertising Manager of UK-based tyre industry magazine, Tyre Trade News, who passed away on Thursday 19 July after a short illness.

Lehigh Opens Spanish Facility | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

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Lehigh Opens Spanish Facility | Tyre and Rubber Recycling

Lehigh Technologies Inc., the Georgia, USA-based producer of Micronised Rubber Powders (MRP) from end-of-life tyres and post-industrial rubber, has completed its new MRP production facility in Murillo el Fruto, Spain.

The plant, located in a village in the province of Navarra, has an annual production capacity of 10,000 metric tons of MRPs, according to Lehigh.

The first Lehigh production facility outside of the U.S., the Murillo el Fruto plant was commissioned in late June, and it incorporates Lehigh’s proprietary cryogenic turbo mill technology to manufacture MRPs.

Jex Engineering Co. Ltd., a Grimsby, England-based engineering firm, executed the construction of the Murillo el Fruto plant with support from the Dennis Group and Air Products and Chemicals Inc..

The Lehigh production line is located next to the operations of Indugarbi NFU, a leading Spanish tyre recycler operated by Lehigh’s Spanish partner, Barcelona-based HERA Holding.

“Before the completion of the Navarra plant, HERA sold us granulate from end-of-life tyres sourced in Spain, and shipped it to the U.S.,” said CEO of Lehigh, Alan Barton said. “We made the MRPs in Tucker and shipped them back to Spain, to meet the European Union’s content regulations.”

Lehigh became a wholly owned subsidiary of Michelin in October 2017 and now is part of the tyre manufacturer’s High Technology Materials Business Unit. Lehigh, which has supplied MRPs to Michelin for the past 10 years, is an integral part of Michelin’s Sustainable Mobility Plan, in which it plans to have 80per cent recycled content in its tyres and recycle 100 per cent of its tyres by 2048.

While nothing definitive yet, Lehigh plans at some point to have production facilities in other parts of the world. Asia and South America are next on the company’s list, he said.

“But we were focused on Europe because we had a significant amount of customers we had to supply,” he said.

Ecolomondo Completes Acquisition of Site for New Facility

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Ecolomondo Completes Acquisition of Site for New Facility

Ecolomondo Corporation has completed the purchase of the site to build its latest Thermal Decomposition (TDP) turnkey facility to be built on Tessier street in the Town of Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada.

Further to an Agreement of Purchase and Sale completed with the Town of Hawkesbury on April 19, 2018, and further to the satisfactory completion of all due diligence conditions, the parties successfully closed the transaction on July 11, 2018. The purchase price was $400,000, including a contribution of $315,000 by Ecolomondo to build an extension of Tessier street.

Site work is to begin immediately, including deforestation and geotechnical reports required for municipal and environmental permit applications.

This new TDP facility is expected to be built on approximately 13.4 acres and to be housed in a building of approximately 50,000 sq.ft. This facility will be equipped with the latest generation technology and is expected to have the capacity to process approximately 13,000 tons of end-of-life tyres per year. It is expected to recover 5,000 tons of carbon black, 6,5 million litres of oil, 1,200 tons of process gas and over 1,600 tons of steel per year.

Once commissioned, this facility will be used as a showpiece to bring visibility and to garner global attention to the Company’s technology.

To spearhead the construction of this facility, Ecolomondo has concluded an EPCM (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Management) service agreement with Ultragen, a prominent engineering company highly experienced in the areas of waste processing and petrochemicals. Ecolomondo expects to begin construction by the autumn of 2018 and to achieve final completion between the second and third quarters of 2019.

Irish Farmers Get Waste Tyre Boost

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Irish Farmers Get Waste Tyre Boost

Irish environment Minister, Denis Naughten is to provide €700,000 in funding for a number of centres across the country to support the recycling of waste tyres, which are typically used to anchor silage pits.

IFA Environment Chairman Thomas Cooney welcomed the decision saying that the IFA has lobbied for a number of years for the introduction of a take back scheme for waste tyres, which ensures the sustainable management of old and worn tyres that can no longer be used to anchor silage pits.

Concluding, Thomas Cooney said, “Farmers continue to demonstrate a real willingness to recycle waste streams generated on farms. Each year thousands of tonnes of farm plastics, bale wrap and meal bags are recycled. I am sure that farmers will also support this worthwhile waste tyre initiative and I look forward to working with Minister Naughten to ensure its success.”

Last year, Minister Naughten announced a €1m fund to help remove stockpiles of used tyres. However, concerns were raised when it emerged that farmers were not able to access that funding.

Mr Naughten has said he is also supporting the introduction of a new compliance scheme to ensure that as many old tyres as possible are taken out of the system before the scheme is introduced on October 1.

The new scheme, to be run by Repak ELT, will reassure consumers that their old tyres will be disposed of responsibly by the retailer when they buy new tyres.

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