Global Clean Energy secures contract with Liberty Tire Recycling

Global Clean Energy Inc. (GCE), Houston, has announced it recently secured a long-term supply agreement with Pittsburgh-based Liberty Tire Recycling, a leading tire recycler that processes in excess of 140 million tires annually, to provide tire chips as feedstock to GCE. GCE says the supply agreement allows it to move forward with its planned tires-to-fuels project which will convert tires, through proven pyrolysis gasification technology, into transportation fuel and tire-derived carbon char.

GCE's project is expected to produce 1.5 million gallons of fuel each year while keeping more than 800,000 tires from landfills. GCE says it plans to develop additional tires-to-fuels facilities throughout North America.

"GCE is extremely pleased to finalize this long-term agreement with Liberty Tire Recycling; it will be economically beneficial to both our businesses in addition to making positive impacts to the environment and the future of alternative energy production in the U.S.," says Steven Mann, GCE chief development officer.

GCE is a waste-to-energy alternative fuels company. It is developing build-own-operate waste-to-energy conversion sites through developed and acquired technologies that convert end-of-life plastic and tires into commercially viable energy. The company calls the process Reforming Environmental Salvage into Clean Usable Energy (R.E.S.C.U.E.).