WTV: Decarbonizing Tire Manufacturing

We funded diverse Waste-to-Value (WTV) projects from resource recovery to conversion of hard-to-recycle, fossil-carbon materials like end-of-life tires, waste plastics, or mixed municipal solid waste, biomass wastes such as from woody materials, livestock (horse bedding, poultry litter, etc.), water waste sludges, and much more.

Solving the Problem of Accumulating End-of-life Tires

Case Study of processing end-of-life tires, mainly stockpiled and buried in the US (called “monofils”), via a portfolio of 16 “turnkey” projects that convert old tires into the raw materials of new tires with radically fewer carbon emissions.  This next generation solution generates valuable bonus co-products (beyond carbon black and steel) using breakthrough technology. Construction of each facility takes approximately 2 years (the first one slightly longer), with the following short video to explain best:

Individual project budgets ranged from $115M – $300M per site, with 16 sites that use “cloned engineering” for rapid and consistent deployment across all sites, with the first four based in North America, generating substantial pre-arranged tax equities as an added incentive.

Building most infrastructure construction projects typically takes 1-2 years to complete, with full insurance (MunichRe) available as well as the EPC’s bonding. This world-class lead engineering firm has prepared from the start to rapidly replicate across the remaining sites.