Phoenix Recycling Technologies (PRT) has completed construction of a $5.5-million waste tire recycling center in Las Vegas. The state-of-the-art plant is the first full-service tire recycling facility in Nevada.
Recent legislation in the Silver State, Senate Bill 186, has been enacted to stop the burying of whole tires in landfills, requiring them to be recycled.
PRT’s new center can process more than 2 million car and truck tires per year, with virtually all of the material being recycled, according to operations director Kelly Sockwell.
The resulting material is used in a wide variety of applications such as rubberized asphalt paving, infill material for athletic fields and the manufacturing of molded rubber products.
Sockwell reports that a day shift is currently up and running with a second shift to be added soon.
“We are glad to be part of this community and provide the needed service of tire recycling to the citizens of Nevada, but we look at ourselves more as a manufacturing company than a recycler,” says Sockwell. “We are producing commodities that just happen to be made from waste; for each ton we produce it lowers the environmental impact of producing new materials.”
PRT is a subsidiary of Phoenix Industries, an engineering and technology firm that manufactures tire recycling plants and asphalt rubber blending equipment for worldwide distribution.
For more information, visit www.phoenixrecyclingtechnologies.com.
