Abstract
Elm Energy and Recycling (UK) Limited is constructing a tyre recycling facility in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom which will produce sufficient electricity for 25,000 homes, provide whole tyre disposal for about 21 percent of the UK's annual arisings, and produce steel wire and zinc calcine for recycling.
This paper discusses the Elm Energy approach to whole tyre recycling and efforts to duplicate the approach elsewhere, including problems in the European Community for any project whose feedstock is industrial or post-consumer waste arising in more than one of the Community's Member States.
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1.The description of Council Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975 is contained in Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community, Official Journal of the European Communities, 6 February 1993, pages 30/1 et seq
2.Cited in Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community, ibid
3.Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community, ibid
4.Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments of waste within, into and out of the European Community, Official Journal of the European Communities, 6 February 1993, page 30/2
5.Council Regulation (EEC) No 259/93 of 1 February 1993 on the supervision and control of shipments within, into and out of the European Community, Official Journal of the European Communities, 6 February 1993, page 30/2