Reimagining Resource Recovery: Carbon Recycle supported by BE&R for Waste-to-Fuel Project
BE&R Consulting congratulates Carbon Recycle on securing feasibility funding from the Collie Futures Grant for its tyre and plastic recycling initiative. BE&R is proud to have supported the project as Owner’s Engineer for more than five years, helping progress it from concept toward execution.
The project tackles a growing Australian challenge: rising volumes of end-of-life tyres and waste plastics, tighter export restrictions, limited local recycling options and poor WA fuel security. Without domestic solutions, these materials are ending up in landfill, stockpiles, or in illegal dumps.
Converting Waste into Valuable Products
Carbon Recycle is developing infrastructure to convert end‑of‑life tyres and soft plastics into ultra‑low sulphur, low‑carbon‑intensity diesel and recovered carbon black, using advanced pyrolysis technology.
Pyrolysis thermally converts hydrocarbon-based materials in an oxygen-free environment into liquid fuels, solid carbon products, and process energy. The proposed facilities are designed as closed-loop systems, using energy generated within the process to help power operations and reduce external demand.
This approach offers multiple system‑level benefits:
- Waste diversion from landfill and stockpiles
- Domestic fuel production, reducing reliance on imports
- Lower lifecycle emissions compared to conventional fossil fuels
- Recovered materials that can be reused in industrial supply chains
In short, Carbon Recycle is turning problematic waste into a strategic resource for Australia’s lower-carbon future.
BE&R’s Role as Owner’s Engineer
As Owner’s Engineer, BE&R Consulting has provided independent engineering and development management, acting in the interests of the asset owner rather than technology vendors or contractors.
BE&R’s involvement has focused on:
- Technology and process assessment
- Engineering input for decision making
- Technical and project risk ID and management
- Continuous improvement on capital and operating costs
Waste-to-fuels projects are complex. BE&R’s role has been to help ensure key decisions are technically sound, well made, and aligned with long-term operability rather than short-term development milestones.
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Hugh Reynolds, Managing Director of Carbon Recycle, said:
“This funding represents an important milestone for Carbon Recycle. It advances our vision to develop a network of end-of-life tyre‑to‑fuel facilities across Australia, diverting tyres from landfill and producing low‑carbon fuels to support Australian industry.”
