When it comes to the economics of tire recycling, generating byproducts is one thing, but who actually buys them? After all, a recycling technology is only a business if its outputs have real markets, real…
Tire recycling has always been a low-tech industry. If you walk through most tire recycling operations, you’ll find shredders, pelletizers, and manual labor – all are functional, but far from cutting-edge. The industry has long…
Every time we describe what we’re building at Gilead Dynamics, the same question comes up: Why pyrolysis? It’s a fair question, to be sure. In tire recycling, pyrolysis has a reputation. Investors have been burned,…
Most people assume tires get recycled like aluminum cans, plastic bottles, or cardboard boxes. Maybe they get swapped out at the shop, hauled away, and turned into something new somewhere down the line, but don’t…
Industrial recycling is about turning product waste into something more valuable. It is no surprise that this industry is dominated by conversations about sustainability: emissions, carbon footprints, and waste reduction. While Gilead Dynamics is no…
Tire recycling is often seen as a solution to a purely environmental problem. But the reality is more complex than that. While that is an important consideration for operators and investors, the real question for…
Tire recycling isn’t a new idea. It’s been explored worldwide for decades — but making it work consistently has proven far more difficult than in other recycling streams. At first glance, it seems like a…
As new industrial systems approach deployment, one question matters more than almost anything else: can this actually be built, deployed, and operated at scale? For Gilead Dynamics, that question became central to the development of…
How Mobility Changes the Economics of Tire Recycling For most of its history, tire recycling has happened in large, centralized facilities where material is collected, transported, and fed into fixed plants designed to handle high…
A Problem That Should Have Been Solved Each year, more than a billion tires reach end-of-life globally. They don’t break down, they take up space, and they create long-term environmental risks if left unmanaged. The…
