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22.01.2022 Toxic cocktail in the ocean chemicals from car tyre granules: A very interesting article about the toxic impact of end-of-life tyres, particularly when used as crumbed rubber, recently appeared in the Norwegian publication, The Barents Observer. It deals with the environmental problem caused by tyre crumbs, either from the use on turf pitches, or as a result of tyre wear and tear in everyday road use. "From Norwegian artificial turf fields, 65 tonnes of granules disappear a...nnually on clothing and shoes, which corresponds to approximately 10,000 used car tyres. Most of this ends up in the sea because it is flushed away after machine washing. 3,200 tonnes disappear annually with regular use, mostly in connection with snow clearing and drains. During its effective lifetime, a car tyre loses approximately 1 kg of rubber onto the roads and into the wild." Here's the link to the article: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/7300 #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

21.01.2022 Our September newsletter features the story of how a Hornsby shareholder reached out to NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean. We also turn the spotlight on two of our home-grown technical heroes. And we touch base on Australia's growing problem with recycling old tyres. Read more in this edition of the GDT Newsletter: https://www.gdtc6.com/newsletter-september-2020/ #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

20.01.2022 The vast majority of Australians aren't aware of what happens to tyres once they reach their end of life, according to a survey by Keep Australia Beautiful. The survey aims to uncover what many people think about the disposal of end-of-life tyres, especially those that can no longer be re-treaded and re-used. Read more: https://www.gdtc6.com/91-australians-dont-know-what-happen/... #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

20.01.2022 Amberley tyre fire arson: Garry Grimmer 'snapped' and torched illegal tyre stockpile Justice was delivered with compassion and reason in the Christchurch District Court when they heard the case of a man who lived across the road from a giant, illegal pile of 400,000 old car tyres who "snapped" and torched them. Garry Grimmer, 62, watched in horror for two years as the massive black tyre dump grew on leased farmland outside the North Canterbury township of Amberley. He phoned ...Hurunui District Council as well as Environment Canterbury (ECan), who installed cameras to record footage of the tyre deliveries. But the Christchurch District Court heard today no other immediate action was apparently taken by either authority. Then, the November 2016 earthquake hit the Kaikoura and North Canterbury regions. Around that time, Grimmer lost his home, employment and his marriage and the cost of battling the tyre stockpile began affecting his mental health. The Christchurch District Court heard thaton February 26, 2018 he snapped, took petrol and paper from home, crossed the road and lit a fire in a smaller pile of about 20,000 tyres beside the main pile of 400,000. He immediately went home and phoned the fire brigade. The massive blaze couldn't be put out for two days and it was with some irony, Judge Jane Farish noted, that firefighters were ordered not to use water to extinguish the fire because of possible groundwater contamination. Judge Jane Farish didn't believe the actions were premeditated and accepted that he "snapped" and sentenced apologetic first-offender Grimmer, who pleaded guilty to arson, to nine months' supervision. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm

18.01.2022 Queensland Government using drones to catch law-breakers: Police used a drone to spy on a Brisbane property after the owner was accused of illegally hoarding up to 30,000 car tyres after they didn’t believe the story he gave them and the pictures tell the story. Police, firefighters and the Department of Environment and Science inspected a property at the outer Brisbane suburb of Willawong several weeks ago after a tip-off.... The owner showed them about 3000 tyres and a number of car bodies, but suspicious compliance officers then sent up a drone and they found another 25,000 to 27,000 tyres and hundreds of car bodies on a nearby property belonging to the man. Willawong is only 117 kms or 1 and a half hours from Toowoomba, where Australian tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies is planning to build a processing plant and when that facility is operating those 30,000 old tyres could have produced 230,000 litres of oil, 270 tonnes or carbon and 120 tonnes of steel, so maybe the property owner was waiting for the plant to open? https://www.couriermail.com.au//fe7979f026b7cfd2439c86071d (note that the courier requires an active subscription for you to read the full article)

17.01.2022 Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) anticipates strong international growth in its future as it consolidates agreements in the US UK, and South African markets. The tyre recycler's optimism comes despite growing concerns of the global coronavirus pandemic. #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling https://www.gdtc6.com/gdt-strong-international-growth-desp/

17.01.2022 Media Release: Australian tyre recycler Green Distillation Technologies can transform end-of-life tyres into hydrogen. The company has already developed technology that can take old tyres and turn them into high value oil, carbon, and steel. Read more: https://www.gdtc6.com/australian-recycler-turn-old-tyres-h/... #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

16.01.2022 We applaud the action by the Federal Government’s to provide $190 million in new funding for the recycling sector that hopefully will act as a catalyst for further grants from State Government and private investors. This grant should also be a vote of confidence in the viability of recycling to be a generator of employment and a sound future investment for all concerned. Our directors have been pro-active in meetings with Ministers and Ministerial Advisers for some time and w...e hope that our dogged patience will be rewarded and will be a spur for specific grants that will enable our proposed Warren and Toowoomba projects to move to full production and that we are also able to move forward on the other areas we have identified for future plants, namely Gladstone, Wagga. Geelong, Elizabeth and Collie, WA. https://www.afr.com//190m-fund-to-boost-recycling-in-austr

14.01.2022 Construction is underway on the second module at Warren in western NSW. Orders for outstanding equipment are being placed but in the meantime, parts that have been waiting on site are being lifted into position and bolted down.

14.01.2022 The global market for tyres is forecast to reach 2.7 billion units by 2025 "I remember being asked the question by a journalist at the news conference we held at the Queensland University of Technology to announce the results into the tests into the quality of the oil derived from old tyres as a result of our process," recalls Trevor Bayley, COO of Green Distillation Technologies. "On learning that we were recycling end-of-life tyres into oil, carbon and steel, she asked, 'wh...at happens, when you run out of tyres'?", as clearly like most of the population she had no idea how many tyres our society produces around the world each year. "For a long while, we have quoted that 1.5 billion old tyres are produced each and every year, but that the number is increasing as India and China embrace the automotive age. "But that number has now been upgraded to 2.7 billion by 2025, so if you had trouble getting your head around the previous estimate, just try and envisage how much 2.7 billion end-of life tyres would look like. "So the answer is that if you think that GDT will run out of end-of-life tyres to process the answer is, 'no, not soon'," Trevor Bayley said. Read more: https://www.globenewswire.com//The-global-market-for-Tires #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

13.01.2022 MEDIA RELEASE: Tyre recycler GDT is eyeing a potential business expansion into the European market. The company cites the low tyre recycling rate in the continent as reason for piquing its interest. #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling READ MORE: https://www.gdtc6.com/gdt-time-right-european-market-expan/

13.01.2022 Despite the ongoing global COVID-10 pandemic, GDT’s future looks bright. The company expects to benefit from the Australian government’s banning of baled tyre exportation by 2021. It also formalised its joint venture with specialist company Tytec Logistics. Find out more in this latest edition of the newsletter. https://www.gdtc6.com/newsletter-july-2020/... #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

12.01.2022 Australian tyre recycler to expand Warren plant capacity Green Distillation Technologies announced its plan to expand the capacity of its Warren plant with the installation of an additional processing module. The project is expected to double the facility's existing production output.... Read more: https://www.gdtc6.com/australian-tyre-recycler-expand-warr/

12.01.2022 The Conference that never was The annual waste conference, which is held in Coffs Harbour each May is renowned as being one of the most popular held in Australia each year and usually attracts 600-700 attendees. So when Green Distillation Technologies’ Chief Operating Officer Trevor Bayley was selected as a speaker this year, we were all very pleased at the opportunity of addressing such an important audience. But like so many such gatherings Waste 2020 has been cancelled. Th...e organisers requested that the papers be put up on their website, which we have done. We have also reproduced it on the GDT website for you: https://www.gdtc6.com/waste-2020-conference-speech-gdt-tre/

12.01.2022 Ocean Crusaders clean up Bundaberg’s Burnett River Ocean Crusaders is a charity organisation that specialises in waterway cleaning on a large scale and were awarded a Council tender in Bundaberg to spearhead a community effort to keep the local waterways clean. The skilled and highly specialised team has already removed four tonnes of rubbish from the river including 43 tyres on the first day of the clean-up. ... Ocean Crusaders founder Ian Thomson said he thought the tyres had all been rolled off the edge and he believed that someone was trying to dump tyres while they were there, but they were caught in the act and they turned around and ran away. Council has two officers who investigate illegal dumping and the information was provided to them for action. he said. https://www.bundabergnow.com//ocean-crusaders-clean-burne/

12.01.2022 Scammers dump old tyres at Perth properties, leaving one owner with $100,000 clean-up bill WA authorities have warned land and property owners about a scam in which thousands of old tyres were illegally dumped at leased properties, leaving one victim with a huge clean-up bill, reports the ABC News. It's interesting that this has been done in Queensland in the past and the scammers got away with it until the authorities stepped in.... It works this way: Businesses which have stockpiles of used tyres are approached and offered much cheaper disposal rates than legitimate tyre recyclers. They then dump the scrap tyres at properties they have leased, such as storage lockers, vacant land lots and backyards of rented homes. In one instance, piles of tyres were left at a property in Wungong, in Perth's south-east, leaving the owner with a $100,000 clean-up bill. Read more: https://www.abc.net.au//scammers-illegally-dumpin/12654878 #TyreRecycling #TireRecycling

11.01.2022 Stratford New Zealand mayor Neil Volzke wants tyre dumping offender caught: There is a ‘phantom’ polluter who is illegally dumping tyres in the backcountry of the North Island of New Zealand and the local Stratford mayor Neil Volzke is not impressed.... He’s quoted in the local Stratford Press as saying: "I am bloody annoyed. This is really irresponsible behaviour by an individual." Neil says he is aware of the tyres being dumped over four locations recently, with six separate incidents noted and reported by residents nearby. On Saturday he went out to view two of the sites himself and says he was disgusted by what he saw. "We aren't just talking about one or two tyres. This is a large amount which have been illegally dumped in the area." Neil says he wants the offender charged. "I have now laid a formal complaint with the police about it and hope the person responsible for this is found and charged," he said. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/stratford-press/news/article.cfm

10.01.2022 This item was reported on the ABC Landline Facebook page: This four-month-old lamb is all tyred out! According to owner Kat, he gets into all kinds of trouble by headbutting and rubbing himself on things - this just happened to be his latest exploit!... The tyre was removed and thankfully no harm was done. But the incident means that farmers should solve the problem by removing old tyres from their sheep paddocks and they should also remember that the regulation is that they can’t store more than 500 tyres on their farm.. https://www.facebook.com//a.655982667795/3509022315824657/

09.01.2022 Geelong council reports big rise in illegal dumping since end of March and tyres at 21% make up the biggest percentage: Illegal dumping has jumped in Geelong during COVID-19 restrictions, with councillors calling on residents to ‘Dob in a dumper’. Councillor Anthony Aitken revealed illegal rubbish dumping had increased by more than 40 per cent since the end of March, as the Geelong Council approved the extension and expansion of its free on-call hard waste collection service.... The City of Greater Geelong reports the most commonly dumped items in the region include tyres (21 per cent), bagged rubbish (18 per cent), rubble (13 per cent), furniture (12 per cent) and mattresses (11 per cent). Geelong is not the only region in Australia to report an increase in illegally dumped rubbish as Sydney has also reported a similar situation with a significant increase in the outer suburbs, including Penrith, the Hills and Cumberland. At Ku-ring-gai on the upper north shore, reports of illegal dumping surged by 40 per cent in April, compared with the same month last year. https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au//5f139e688fc963cf1cd2 (note that this article is behind a paywall)

09.01.2022 This Geelong Advertiser story highlights a significant dumping problem in Australia that adds to the cost of recycling, as cleaning up the mess is an expensive exercise for the local Council. In this case, the dump of end-of-life tyres is in Geelong, an area that Green Distillation Technologies has earmarked as a location for a future tyre recycling plant. Illegal rubbish dumping becoming a ‘serious problem’ in the region, says farmer after tyre discovery... A Gheringhap farmer is fed up with rubbish dumpers, after about 70 old tyres were abandoned on the side of a local road in a matter of weeks. Farmer and former local councillor Des Guinane said rubbish dumping had become a serious problem in the region after twice discovering piles of old rusted tyres dumped on the side of Ryan Rd in recent weeks. About three weeks or so ago there was a dump of about 30 old tyres. I rang the council and the council shifted them, and just this week I was driving up Ryans Rd and there was a fresh dump of tyres, it was about 40 tyres in that particular lot, Mr Guinane said this week. It’s visually offensive and the rest of us try to do the right thing and not to spoil the appearance of the general locality, but that’s exactly what these people are doing Rubbish dumping is a serious problem in the region. The city spends about $800,000 annually on collecting dumped rubbish. The link to the story can be opened by subscribers to News Limited publications: https://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au//537145509d6c984e065f

08.01.2022 Rapper fined $30K for environmental vandalism: A 28-year-old father of two has been fined $30,000 in Ipswich Magistrates Court for dumping thousands of car and truck tyres in bushland in southeast Queensland. The report on the court case in the CQNews said that James Timothy William Yoxon, a rapper who goes by the name Freewyo, appearing before magistrate Dennis Kinsella pleaded guilty to 17 charges in relation to illegally dumping waste at various locations in 2018; and one ...charge for carrying out environmental relevant activities without environmental authority between August 22, 2018 and November 14, 2018 at Ipswich and elsewhere. He first pleaded guilty back in June. The offences relate to his illegal waste dumping activities at Laidley, Upper Flagstone, Ballard, Withcott, Adare and Lake Clarendon in the Lockyer Valley, Mount Rascal, (Toowoomba region), Coolum Beach, Landsborough, Burpengary, Yandina Creek, Berrinba, Forest Lake and Oxley. Mr Kinsella said Yoxon had been prosecuted in two cases before a Southport court and fined $4000 and $12,000. The court was told that in his commercial operation Yoxon charged $1.30 for a motorcycle tyre - to $4.50 for a truck tyre and it involved the dumping of more than 3,500 tyres - 118,000 litres in total at 17 sites. He accepted that Yoxon's contrition was genuine but said the unique Australian environment must be protected. He found the offences to be part of one ongoing course of conduct and took into account the previous $16,000 in fines. The Magistrate Mr Kinsella fined Yoxon $30,000 and sent to the government agency SPER for a payment plan. No conviction was recorded. Yoxon was also ordered to pay the department's investigation and legal costs of nearly $4000. You can access the original article here: https://www.cqnews.com.au//rapper-fined-30k-for-e/4074405/ (CQ News operates a paywall, so you will need to have a paid subscription.)

08.01.2022 GDTC held their AGM in Melbourne on Friday (27th of November). Covid conditions restricted attendance but the engagement with shareholders was lively and positive. For shareholders all the reports are up on the website. Key points are construction of second module is proceeding as planned, bid packages have been sent out for balance of equipment, The ELT (End-of-Life Tyre) industry is about to go through a period of enhanced growth. Time to join the push.

04.01.2022 Westmoreland gives tire recycling incentive to help cut mosquito numbers In looking at the environmental problems caused by dumped end of life tires, the mosquito breeding hazard they create can be overlooked, but not in tropical areas and in Northern Australia it is a year round hazard as the water collected in dumped tires is a source of mosquitos that carry the life threatening Dengue and Ross River fever.... Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania US, an area in which Green Distillation Technologies has considerable interest as a potential location for a tire recycling plant, the County administrators are alert to the local summer mosquito problem and are providing a short term discount on their usual tire recycling fee to get more people to hand in their old tires to help control local mosquito numbers. Andrea M. Halfhill, the Conservation District’s West Nile Virus Program technician, notes that a single abandoned tire can collect enough stagnant water to promote breeding of hundreds of mosquitoes. https://triblive.com//westmoreland-tire-recycling-event-m/

03.01.2022 Cementos Cosmos to Start Using TDF When anyone mentions the term TDF (Tyre Derived Fuel) to most people they respond with incredulity as if it is marketing on steroids, particularly when you explain that it’s burning old tyres as furnace fuel, usually in chopped or crumbed form. As they stop laughing after the first part, you tell them that despite the emissions and waste going to landfill, it is claimed to be environmentally greener to burn old tyres as furnace fuel as it bu...rns hotter than coal and produces more heat more quickly and therefore creates less toxic emissions than coal. This is how GDT greeted the news that a major cement plant in Spain will now start burning old tyres as furnace fuel. There has to be a better alternative to recycling end-of-life tyres than burning them as furnace fuel? https://www.tyreandrubberrecycling.com//cementos-cosmos-t/

02.01.2022 Who is going to clean up Estonia’s infamous Tartu tire dump is still confusing? This story from Estonia Public Broadcasting about this massive tire dump and who is going to clean it up, is confusing and could go on for some time. The story casts doubt on how it got there as the volume is more than the old tires produced by Estonia, so did in come from neighbouring countries over time.... Who knows, except it is a very big pile of tires that are a massive environmental fire hazard, not to say the leaching of noxious chemicals from the tires into the ground water after rain or the annual spring snow thaw in Estonia. https://news.err.ee//ragn-sells-to-clean-up-infamous-tartu

01.01.2022 Black Astroturf-Like Rubber Crumbs Polluted On Lantau's Discovery Bay Lantau Island in Hong Kong Harbour is a familiar location for many Australians who have either visited or lived in Hong Kong and they, like the locals would be perturbed by this story about the black Astroturf like rubber crumbs that have polluted Lantau’s Discovery Bay. No one yet knows where it has come from, but it highlights the problems caused by the use of crumbed rubber infill in synthetic turf, beca...use at best it can only be described as reshaping, as the small pieces of old tyre tread will still be around for 500 years or more. The use of crumbed rubber infill in synthetic grass on sporting fields, or other surfaces, is a poor use of end-of-life tyres, as it washes away after heavy storms and finishes up in storm water and thence to bays and beaches and when the turf has reached its use by date, the only means of recycling is to dump it in landfill. https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/black-astroturf-like-rubber-/

01.01.2022 Revenge is sweet: Fed-up farmer hit by fly-tippers 25 times in a year sets up CCTV to catch latest culprit who left 400 tyres on his land... then dumps them on HIS doorstep: A Wigan farmer, Stuart Baldwin was plagued by a fly-tipper who dumped 421 tyres on his land, got his own back when deposited them back on the perpetrator’s doorstep after he caught the act on a security camera. Livestock farmer Stuart, 56, was so fed-up after being targeted 25 times he decided to turn det...ective and tracked down the culprit to his nearby home and after giving him three days to clean up the mess, when the deadline passed without any action, he delivered them back. Revenge is best served cold isn't it? I got sick of it so I thought I would do a bit back, Stuart said. Here is the article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk//Landowner-uses-tipper-truck-p It also contains more photos and actual video footage of the return of the "lost" tyres...