WHAT WE PROCESS

Focused on Tires. Built for Global Feedstocks.

Divergent Recycling is currently optimizing commercial operations around tires, but our vision extends much further:

  • Commercial Focus: Currently centered around tire processing.

  • Global Proven Technology: Pyrolysis is actively applied worldwide for all the feedstocks listed on this page.

  • Ingenious Solutions Daily: Taking a proactive waste management approach constantly unlocks new R&D paths and applications.

Have a material not listed below? Reach out to our team—we are always looking for a good excuse to run an experiment.

Globally, pyrolysis is used to handle many different materials. Including but not limited to:

They’re the backbone of the modern consumer economy — strong, flexible, and everywhere. Used for milk bottles, shampoo containers, buckets, detergent bottles, and shopping bags. Unlike PET (used for clear drink bottles), HDPE and PP produce a high yield of liquid oil (60–80%) when processed through pyrolysis.

In a controlled, permitted facility, pyrolysis safely converts this into usable oil, char, and gas without direct combustion.

When heated slowly, this type of wood yields biochar — a prime addition for soil remediation and fertilizer additives.

Our process can remove the creosote from rail ties or phone poles and allow for actual disposal of the preserved wood. Shingles can be processed to reactivate the asphalt and bitumen, allowing for reuse of the oil product and the aggregates in new roofing construction.

Industrial sludges range from wastewater treatment plants to paper recycling sludge and oil and gas industry sludge. Each instance has a viable solution using pyrolysis, though with different outputs and preparation processes.

A rich feedstock sourced from personal, commercial, industrial and military transportation industries around the world. They can be processed whole, so even the largest tires can be recycled.

Pyrolysis converts tires into valuable outputs including pyrolysis oils, recovered carbon black, and steel, with gas reused for energy. One ton of used car tires yields roughly 400–500 litres of oil plus steel and recoverable carbon black.