Thanks Fred, @Fred123
Good that there may be one more option for disposal of used tyres aside from landfill.
I do wonder about the opening line in this statement in the published report.
The renewable diesel … has been refined from post-consumer waste, mainly mixed tyre crude oil and refined into 100 per cent drop-in diesel.
Does the CO2 produced ultimately go back through a life cycle to become natural rubber in tyres again?
Wikipedia suggests:
More than 28 million tons of rubber were produced in 2017, of which approximately 47% was natural. Since the bulk is synthetic, which is derived from petroleum, the price of natural rubber is determined, to a large extent, by the prevailing global price of crude oil
Aside from the benefits of running down the stockpiles of used tyres?
Australia consumes more than 28,000Ml of diesel a year. A very similar volume to global rubber production? Australia has an opportunity to corner the world wide waste disposal of used tyres. It’s not clear how this might help reduce our CO2 emissions? Perhaps if the used tyres came with carbon credits?
