Tyrecycle, a division of ResourceCo started in Adelaide, honoured as a global leader in old tyres resource recovery

Resources recovered from old tyres by Tyrecycle, a national division of ResourceCo that originated in Adelaide, are put to uses such as fuel and constructing roads and sporting surfaces.
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Tyrecycle, a division of leading Australasian resource recovery company ResourceCo started in Adelaide, won the best tyre cycler title in the first global Recircle Awards in 2021.

Tyrecycle won the award against other global leaders from United Kingdom, South Africa, Netherlands and North America for contributing to the circular economy. Tyrecycle, Australia's largest tyre recycler with seven plants across Australia, including at Lonsdale, south of Adelaide, was taken over in 2008 by integrated resource recovery company ResourceCo, founded by Simon Brown in Adelaide, in 1992.

ResourceCo, one of Australia’s leading waste recycling companies and a pioneer in carbon abatement, turned Tyrecycle from the waste division of the major tyre manufacturer into Australia’s largest recycler for all types of tyres. Tyrecycle’s seven dedicated tyre processing plants across Australia were equipped with advanced rubber remanufacturing capabilities and collected more than 20 million tyres each year with a recycling rate of 99%. It produced complex high-quality repurposed material for the local and global market. These materials included tyre-derived-fuel and rubber crumb used to construct roads, including sprayed seals or in asphalt, as well as sporting and playground surfaces.

In 2021, Tyrecycle received $962,000 from Australian and South Australian governments, under the recycling modernisation fund, to improve its tyre recycling plant in Lonsdale to deliver export quality products that comply with waste export bans on unprocessed tyres from Australia coming into effect that year. Total project value of the Lonsdale project was $1,624,000.