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THE world faces many major challenges including climate change, slow economic growth and a disproportionate reliance on mineral resources. It is becoming increasingly accepted that adopting the circular economy model could provide answers for many of these problems. US President Barack Obama’s administration reported in June that the failure to act on climate change could … Read more

PERTH, Western Australia, March 31, 2016 (ENS) – Tytec Recycling, a new company based in Perth, announced Wednesday that it would open the world’s first environmentally-friendly off the road tire recycling operation this year. The facility will employ a new Edison Award-winning technology to make high-quality marketable steel, diesel oil and carbon out of the … Read more

The recently released Ellen MacArthur report singled out Enval’s microwave induced pyrolysis technology as a way to recycle plastic and aluminium while achieving energy savings as part of the circular economy. The foundation is named after Dame Ellen MacArthur, record-breaking sailor, and was established to accelerate the transition to a circular economy by influencing business, … Read more

A proposed tire pyrolysis plant operated by Neo Waste of Corpus Christi is “a viable project that would be a really good fit for Plainview and Hale County,” according to Mike Fox, executive director of the Plainview-Hale County Economic Development Corporation. On Friday, two company representatives, Vice President Gil Bartee and Sales Manager Tony Altemus, … Read more

At a factory in Almeria, on the southern coast of Spain, Michael Murray, the CEO of the technology company Cynar, makes an impressive demonstration. A video on Cynar’s website shows him filling a glass bottle with a soup distilled from plastic, then marching outside. In a sport coat and rubber gloves, he pours it into … Read more

Plastics Help Deliver Renewable Energy TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Is your home powered by plastics? If it’s one of the thousands of Canadian homes that uses energy from renewable sources, plastics could be playing a role in helping you reduce the environmental footprint of energy production. Here are three contributions that plastics … Read more

AN Australian company with a world-first method for recycling tyres has found it easier to raise capital overseas because local investors have grown cool on green technology in the current political climate. Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) is about to open its first plant in central NSW, and has already committed to building a second plant … Read more

The new technology, part of the North South cooperation projects, which allows a “second life to our waste”, was presented at the Institute for Research and Development in Paris on November 5, before the COP21, according to Medias24. Developed in Marrakech, SMO is the only process in the world able to make a solar pyrolysis … Read more

New systems produce useful oil, black carbon, and other valuable materials from old tires or discarded plastic and rubber, Beston Group reports. With waste plastic and rubber accumulating worldwide, the Beston Group’s new pyrolysis technologies and equipment offer up effective solutions to some growing problems. Pyrolysis occurs when organic materials, like those based on hydrocarbons, … Read more

Despite its complicated history, the Avonmouth pyrolysis plant in the UK has been brought back into operation and is approaching full operation capacity. Here the EPC contractor provides an account of the story and the technology process being used. Clinical and hazardous waste management has come under increasingly structured legislation, driven in large part from … Read more