South Africa is slowly eating into its mountain of scrap vehicle tyres, with 19 percent of old tyres recycled last year – a jump from just 4 percent two years ago. Yesterday, the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of SA (Redisa), a non-profit company responsible for building a viable recycling industry with the focus on … Read more
AN Australian company with a world-first method for recycling tyres has found it easier to raise capital overseas because local investors have grown cool on green technology in the current political climate. Green Distillation Technologies (GDT) is about to open its first plant in central NSW, and has already committed to building a second plant … Read more
THE recent announcement of the European Commission’s new Circular Economy Package has been regarded by many as a step backwards, rather than a push for more ambitious targets.
The revised package has been brought in line with the reduced waste targets, leaving many commentators disgruntled.
In an attempt to ensure that used tyres are disposed properly, a 16-year-old boy from the city has designed a website which will serve as an aggregator of such tyres.
The web portal, Tyrlessly, created by Anubhav Wadhwa was launched this month. Anubhav is a student of Pathways World School, Aravali.
Anubhav said the idea of creating a website like this came to his mind when he saw someone burning used tyres one day. The incident left him wondering what happens to all the discarded tyres.
As part of WMW’s new leader series, we speak to Hermann Erdmann, CEO of the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (Redisa) about tyre recycling in South Africa.