Sustainability

Waste, resource, industry

Our sustainability work is our business itself: taking a waste stream that harms land and air, and returning it to industry as fuel and raw material.

Discarded tyres are made of rubber that doesn’t break down. Dumped, they fill land; burned in the open, they pollute the air of the communities around them.

Nepal also imports the furnace oil, diesel and coal its factories burn for heat. Tyre pyrolysis addresses both problems at once: it removes a waste stream and produces a domestic fuel.

The circular model

How a used tyre goes back to work

01Waste
End-of-life tyres, tubes and rubber scrap are collected as the plant’s raw material.
02Resource
Pyrolysis recovers them as oil, carbon char and steel wire in a sealed, oxygen-free process.
03Industry
Factories use the oil and char as fuel, and the carbon and steel as raw materials.

In practice

What this means at our plant

Tyres out of dumps and open fires

Tyres that would otherwise be dumped or burned in the open are processed in a sealed, oxygen-free system.

Less imported fuel

Pyrolysis oil and carbon char give local industry a domestically produced alternative to imported fuels, including coal.

Steel back into the supply chain

The bead and belt wire of each tyre is recovered as HMS 1 steel scrap and sold to steel recyclers instead of being lost.

Water treated and reused

An effluent treatment plant separates process residues from water, and the water is reused. Polluted water is not discharged from the site.

No chemicals added

The process relies on heat in a controlled atmosphere. No chemicals are used to break the tyres down.

Local jobs and local initiatives

The plant provides 50 direct and about 200 indirect jobs, and we support local cleanliness and manufacturing initiatives such as “Green Nepal”.

Recovered material

Nothing useful is left behind

Carbon char and steel wire are not waste by-products for us. They are products with their own specifications and buyers, which is what makes the process circular rather than just a way to dispose of tyres.

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