GeT Metal Group launches innovative waste-to-energy initiative to eliminate fossil fuels in aluminium production.
GeT Metal Group and its subsidiary GeT Alloys plan to eliminate fossil fuels from their aluminium melting operations by launching a pioneering waste-to-energy initiative that transforms 150,000 end-of-life tyres a year.
The tyres are converted into 1.44 million litres of high-quality industrial fuel, directly tackling South Africa’s severe waste tyre burden while decarbonising heavy industry, GeT Metal Group director Andrew Bishop said Monday.
In South Africa, the tyre recycling sector has largely been focused on shredding, crumb production, and energy recovery, with one of the biggest being the KwaZulu-Natal-based Mathe Group, which recycles about 1,000 radial truck tyres per day to produce 45 tons of rubber crumb, while the waste steel which is exported.
The scale of what to do with used tyres in South Africa is huge - an online search shows some 11 million tyres are discarded in South Africa annually.
