A biofuel that uses used rubber tyres as a feedstock and can produce turbo - charged diesel engines while reducing emissions by 10 % has been developed . Australian start - up Green Distillation Technologies can produce 400 litres of bio - oil from one seven - tonne mining truck tyre and hopes to increase production to more than 8 million litres a year by mid-2017 . An emissions - free method called destructive distillation is used to convert the waste ##water into renewable fuels . Heat is applied to the tyres inside a chamber , which breaks them down into different parts , one of which is condensed into manufactured oil .
A biofuel that uses used rubber tyres as a feedstock and can run turbo-charged diesel engines while reducing emissions by 30% has been developed. Australian start-up Green Distillation Technologies can produce 3,000 litres of bio-oil from one seven-tonne mining truck tyre and hopes to increase production to more than 8 million litres a year by mid-2017. An emissions-free method called destructive distillation is used to convert the waste rubber into renewable energy. Heat is applied to the tyres inside a chamber, which breaks them down into different compounds, one of which is condensed into manufactured oil.