Neste Conducts Recycling Trial Converting Liquefied Tires into High-Quality Products

Finland’s Neste has conducted a trial using liquefied discarded tires to advance its chemical recycling.

In its trial, Neste turned pyrolysis oil gathered from discarded vehicle tires and produced high-quality raw materials for new plastics and chemicals. The pyrolysis oil was obtained from Scandinavian Enviro Systems, a company that develops technologies to recover materials from other end-of-life products.

Neste’s goal from this trial run was to evaluate the potential of chemical recycling beyond plastic waste. This would allow the company to broaden the pool of waste streams that can be processed into high-quality products.

“The beauty of chemical recycling is that it can process hard-to-recycle plastic waste. But it’s not limited to that,” explains Andreas Teir, who oversees Neste’s raw materials supply for chemical recycling.

“With discarded tires currently often facing a fate similar to plastic waste, we consider chemical recycling a valid addition when it comes to changing the linear life cycle of tires into a circular one. Thanks to our supplier Enviro Systems, we were able to prove that with our recent processing run.”

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