The Recycling and Clean Energy Commercialisation Hub (REACH) is representing the Deakin University in the deal and it involves creating a novel technology which when deploy will convert waste tyres to various useable products such as generating electricity, green hydrogen production and more, with zero harmful effect on our environment.
Dumping of waste tyres is a great problem in Australia. It is estimated that about 20 million tyres are disposed in the country every year, with most of them ending up in landfill. Though waste tyres could be reused in landscaping, in asphalt layers, safety barriers at racing venues or as weights for silage production on farms, very small portion of these tyres serve this purposes. The remain larger portion endanger our environment causing pollution, becoming nest for dangerous reptiles and mosquitoes and pose risk of fire outbreak.
Waste tyres to useable products is fast gaining traction in Australia with many research institutions partnering with industry to develop technology and recycling plants to achieve this.
Notable among such projects in recent time in Australia is a newly commissioned recycling plant in the town of Warren, New South Wales built to convert waste tyres into oil, steel and carbon. While the University of Melbourne partners with Merlin Site Service and Tyre Stewardship, Australia to develop technology to covert waste tyre to permeable pavements.
The joint project between the Deakin University, Clean Energy Resource (CER) and the Federal Government of Australia is aimed to create technology to make recycling plant capable of turning waste tyres to solar panel to generate electricity.
The fund for the project is make available by the government of Australia.
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