SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The California Assembly has passed Assembly Bill 1239, a bill designed to expand tire recycling programs within the state.
Approved in the Assembly June 3, AB 1239 would establish a Tire Recycling Incentive Program in California, according to the bill summary on the Assembly website.
A Melbourne-based tyre recycling specialist has become the first Australian company ever to be named an Edison Award finalist. Green Distillation Technologies, which has developed a destructive distillation process for transforming end of life tyres into carbon, oil and steel, is a contender for an award in the Energy & Sustainability category. The firm doesn’t have long to wait to discover if it has landed a gold, silver or bronze award – winners will be announced at an event in New York on 23 April.
The Government wasted time and money after “puncturing” a tyre recycling scheme, the Opposition’s environment spokeswoman says.
A new scheme to safely recycle thousands of tonnes of old tyres was now needed, Labour’s Megan Woods said today.
She said when the responsible minister Nick Smith scuttled the project, he dashed the hopes of industry groups and wasted years of work on the project.
The scheme was supposed to stop “old tyres leaching chemicals into New Zealand’s waterways,” Ms Woods said.
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