What Makes Us Unique
The continuing accumulation of used tires is a major global environmental nightmare. The world uses more tires than it can recycle, and leftovers are either stockpiled or burned. None of the current options for dealing with excess scrap tires is viable. RIPP has the green solution.
Landfills are a Growing Environmental Nightmare
Scrap tire disposal in landfills creates many problems, including serious public health and safety hazards. When tires are co-mingled with garbage, they provide a breeding ground for rats, mosquitos and other vermin which carry a host of diseases, including West Nile virus, encephalitis, dengue fever, among others. Landfills also present the risk of fires which can release extremely toxic pollutants into the air.
Recycling of Tires is Problematic
Converting tires into fuel – "Tire Derived Fuel" (TDF) – involves burning of tires alongside conventional fuels such as coal. Tire incineration or burning under any circumstance is environmentally unfriendly and creates dangerous pollution. TDF faces growing opposition due to tremendous concerns over air pollution, water contamination, and human health impacts.
The tire recycling market faces challenges in that recycled rubber products often cannot meet the quality of products made from virgin rubber, yet at the same time, they often are more expensive to make. For example, rubberized asphalt is more expensive than normal asphalt, but has not proved to be superior.
As a result of this quality/cost challenge, many rubber recycling enterprises either cannot sustain themselves on a commercially attractive basis, or cannot prosper without government assistance.
Current Conversion Technologies
As noted elsewhere, pyrolysis refers to the thermal processing of waste in the complete absence of oxygen. However, despite many efforts to commercialize this technology, it has not yet been achieved in an economically viable way.
The products of batch-type tire pyrolysis have limited marketability due to their low quality compared to virgin materials. The pyrolysis projects implemented to date are mainly batch-type applications, which arc at different times during each batch and as such the consistency of the end products vary in each run.
There are other tire destruction and recycling methods proposed; however none has achieved successful commercialization to date.
Our Solution
Existing recycling and conversion processes have failed to produce end-products with consistent specifications. Our technology approach addresses and overcomes these challenges.
RIPP’s proprietary system is environmentally friendly and converts 100% of a used tire into consistent and readily marketable end-products of commercial grade: carbon black, oil, gas, and steel. Our carbon black has been refined and tested to the extent that it can effectively replace different kinds of carbon black in many applications. The RIPP system is a continuous feed, closed loop, controlled atmosphere pyrolysis process. This ensures that RIPP’s process results in consistent, structured end-use products.
RIPP’s unique, patented extraction technology allows it to achieve a first for the industry: end-products of a consistent and high quality. Compared to existing approaches, RIPP’s technology is radically better in terms of environmental friendliness and quality and consistency of end products. RIPP’s advanced technology and stage of commercialization position the company uniquely to meet the growing global demand to solve the used tire problem.
“Using clean technology to fully recover valuable commodities from scrap tires”