The $8.5 million plant to process end of life car and truck tyres that was proposed for Longford, Tasmania will not proceed if the Local Council does not end its move to revoke Tyre Recycle Tasmania’s permit to store tyres on their site beyond March 2016.
The plant was to be built by an Australian company, Green Distillation Technologies Corporation which earlier this year won a bronze medal for their world first Australian technology in the US Edison Awards, the world’s top innovation award. They were Australia’s first ever finalist in the awards.
GDTC had planned to start work on their site in Longford, which is adjacent to the tyre storage area this month and to have the facility operating in June 2016, but the Northern Midland Council has become impatient and has decreed that the temporary planning permit for the existing tyre dump of 1.3 million tyres will be revoked in March 2016.
So a simple and clever idea based of a returnable bin is solving what has been a transport and logistics nightmare in the past for council tips as well as tyre retailers, transport companies and tyre collectors.
The returnable bins have been developed by waste tyre collector JLW Services of Cootamundra, a business that operates throughout New South Wales and North Western Australia and has plans to expand nationwide.
“No one knows just how many end-of-life car and truck tyres there are in Australia, but what we do know is that they are an environmental scourge,” says Craig Dunn the CEO of an Australian company that has developed a world-first process for recycling old tyres into oil, carbon and steel.
