The following is a media release from Environmental Clean Technologies Limited (ASX: ECT).
ECT and GDT have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a commercial grade end-of-life tyre resource recovery plant at Bacchus Marsh in Victoria.
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
Government recycling laws have just passed the senate and it is big news for Australian tyre recycling technology.
The new recycling laws bring in a waste export ban to Australia.
We can no longer ship our plastics, tyres, paper, glass and cardboard to other regions. Our waste is now our responsibility.
The Green Distillation Technologies process of recycling old tyres into oil, carbon and steel was featured on the top rated Network Ten program The Project last week.
“The growth in the waste to energy sector is causing a corresponding increase in the regulatory framework and the subsequent need for legal specialists,” lawyer Kim Glassborow of G&B Lawyers told the National Energy from Waste conference hosted by the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association held in Canberra recently.
