CSIRO says it is working with VR TEK Operations to design and develop an improved waste rubber recycling method.
According to CSIRO, the new rubber recycling method could see discarded rubber tyres used to make new tyres, industrial insulation, road pavement, flooring or geotextiles for retaining walls and embankments.
Most of the one billion tyres discarded globally per year end up in landfill, because they are almost impossible to recycle economically. The tyres cannot be burned, due to the health and environmental hazards that produces.
The collaborative Advanced Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre project will develop new technologies to reduce waste tyres to devulcanised and activated high quality rubber powders.
The rubber powders can then be used to manufacture new rubber products. VR TEK supplied designs for a cutting mechanism, which succeeded in segmenting a tyre into specific pieces.
Following the segmentation, the project will devulcanise and activate the rubber to produce high quality rubber powders. These stages will begin soon.
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