Recycling plant gains environmental approval to give end-of-road tyres new life as oil, steel and carbon.

A regional town in central-west New South Wales is set to become a major player in oil production and the renewable fuels market. 

Green Distillation Technologies' Trevor Bayley at the tyre recycling plant in Warren.

The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has issued a licence allowing the first green tyre-recycling plant to operate in the town of Warren, north-west of Dubbo. 

The project aims to solve the current problem of mass waste caused by tyres and offers a new way to create oil, steel and carbon.

The proponent, Green Distillation Technologies, has already partially constructed the plant in Warren, but the project was stalled for years by negotiations with the EPA. 

Read the story from ABC News by Lucy Thackray - “Recycling plant gains environmental approval to give end-of-road tyres new life as oil, steel and carbon.”