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| End of Life Tyres: January 2010 |
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Sapphire Supports Duty of Care Obligations
It's important that tyre retailers, fitters and producers - which have a duty of care to manage end of life disposal of their waste tyres - can rely on a professional collection system which ensures responsible disposal that won't harm the environment.
Sapphire Energy Recovery - which is wholly owned by Lafarge Cement - manages the collection of used tyres, and processes them for use in cement kilns. Processing tyres in kilns makes the most of the energy locked within the tyres and reduces the amount of finite fossil fuels required for fuel, thereby reducing CO2 emissions.
The Sapphire business gained a major industry coup during 2009 by gaining certification from BSI to three management system standards: quality, environment, and health and safety, above and beyond the standards required in the waste industry. Adherence to such standards provides the tyre industry with confidence that it has access to a responsible, professional partner for tyre disposal.
Sapphire's sites are strategically located to be both near the main tyre sources - UK conurbations - and the cement industry to keep haulage distances low, bringing another environmental benefit.
Tyres burn in cement kilns at around 2500 degrees centigrade, which is sufficient to burn the organic molecules that make up the tyre and recover the energy trapped within them - meaning some of the fossil fuels traditionally used in kilns can be replaced.
Burning at this incredibly high temperature also means there is no waste residue - all the constituents of the tyres, including steel which makes up approximately 20% of every tyre, are combined in the cement.
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Sheffield Factory Blaze
A factory in Sheffield went up in flames recently.
The blaze at tyre reclamation plant Monckton Rubber Technologies on Stevenson Road, Attercliffe broke out at 10pm and at its height there were around 60 firefighters from nine engines trying to douse flames.
After talks with the Environment Agency, the fire service decided to allow the fire to burn itself out - which was expected to take one or two days.
Firefighters continued pumping water from the nearby River Don onto the factory to try to cool the steelwork construction to prevent it collapsing in the heat.
Initial fears the roof the roof may have contained asbestos were dismissed after tests.
Fire Service group manager Darren Staniland said, " There were 12 workers in the factory when the fire started and when we gor there, which was just two or three minutes after gettong the 999 calls, it was ablaze.
An investigation has been started as to the cause of the blaze.
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Recyclers Look to Safetech
A company whose safety systems have been used for nearly 25 years in the recycling industry has noticed increased interest from tyre recyclers.
Safetech manufacture and install automatic personnel protection equipment for potentially hazardous machinery, like conveyors, shredders and balers.
Protect senior management from prosecution
The majority of our recycling customers operate in paper, board and plastics recycling", says managing director Robert Smith, "but our Sentinel system is equally effective in saving lives and preventing injury to people who work with tyres. We think the growing number of enquiries from tyre recyclers is due not only to the desire to prevent accidents, but also to protect senior management from prosecution.
Sentinel, is safeguarding workers in recycling plants
Safetech pioneered automatic personnel protection in the early 1980s and their earliest systems are still working effectively after many years. Their current flagship product, Sentinel, is safeguarding workers in recycling plants across Europe and North America.
The concept behind Safetech systems is quite simple - to make human beings distinguishable from material. Each worker in the hazard area wears a visually distinctive belt containing two specially designed transceivers. If anyone falls onto the conveyor or gets too near the machinery, Safetech will automatically shut it down and sound an alarm. Workers are protected even if they're injured, unconscious, trapped or buried in material.
Conventional safety systems, like pull-cords, emergency stop buttons and video monitors, only work if the worker is conscious, able to move or if someone else notices what's happened.
Systems that prevent injury and save lives
Safetech's policy of taking advantage of the latest improvements in technology has refined their equipment and installation methods into a very sophisticated system, with comprehensive built-in fail-safe mechanisms. Detection is not impaired by body mass and material. Material flow under normal conditions is uninterrupted and running costs are minimal.
We were the first to develop this type of equipment and have always had a reputation for reliability", says Robert Smith. We supply systems that prevent injury and save lives and we wouldn't have stayed in business for so long without highly reliable products. We've put Safetech into some very hostile environments, with extremes of temperature and humidity, and often with high levels of background electrical interference. By taking advantage of the latest technology, we've made Sentinel even more effective.
Safetech provide a full back-up and servicing response by a team of qualified service engineers. As well as saving lives and preventing injury, there's an added benefit in the possibility of reduced insurance premiums. It removes the need for a buddy system and protects lone workers. Sentinel is recommended by most major suppliers of conveyors and balers in the waste management industry.
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'State of the Art' Tyre Shredding
• Recycling based in Beddington Lane, Croydon, are now into their 3rd year of tyre recycling and going from strength to strength.
• Recycling have a State of the Art shredding facility in the heart of South London and their dedicated transport team collects all sizes of scrap tyres from wholesalers, fitters, dealers, local councils, other waste transfer stations and the general public.
• Recycling's 3 phase shredding process which also includes truck tyre debeading for full extraction of all wires to enable them to produce a high quality PAS107 standard 20mm chip for equestrian use is becoming renowned within the South East.
• Recycling have all the correct 'Duty of Care' to make sure tyre waste is disposed of legally & correctly without going to landfill. By converting tyres into a reusable product they have a traceable audit trail for peace of mind and the EA's satisfaction.
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New to Tyre Disposal
Tyre Recycling Services (TRS) is a newly established business that provides a professional and competitively priced service for the disposal of waste tyres, including motorbike, car, van, 4 x 4, commercial truck tyres and agricultural tyres.
Tyre Recycling Services offer a flexible collection service to meet the needs of their clients which includes mutually agreed collection dates. "We will always confirm collection date and time prior to their arrival on site. TRS aim to collect their client's tyres within 24 hours of contacting their offices,"says Samantha Dyer.
Tyre Recycling Services also offer a service for client's to deliver waste tyres direct to their site. In addition, due to TRS expansion and new contracts they now require "tyre bales" for their up and coming contracts. TRS supply a vast quantity for land drainage projects authorised and governed by the Environment Agency. Again these can be delivered into their site with a small gate fee.
New for 2010 they have just gained planning permission for the unit next door this will double their warehouse and increase their capacity.
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