How about transforming unsightly trash into attractive and practical furniture for outside or inside your home? This is what one entrepreneur, Wayne Kruger, is doing with creative flair and endless innovation. Retyre Furniture sources old tyres lying around in the environment, or discarded by tyre concerns and transforms them into chairs, couches, swings and other quirky … [Read more...]
Tyre Recycling Plan Withdrawn With Immediate Effect
The integrated waste-tyre management plan, which we reported on last week, has been withdrawn after concerns over how the plan was gazetted, were raised by the industry. This plan was meant to generate an estimated 15 000 local jobs and see an end to South Africa’s escalating tyre pollution problem. Acting in Ms Molewa’s stead while she attended the World Economic Forum … [Read more...]
Research proves ways for disposing of tyres in eco-friendly way
The world practically runs on pneumatic tyres, but getting rid of them is an environmental nightmare. Apart from playground flooring material, running tracks for athletes and horses and unfashionable footwear, disposing of or reusing tires has proven to be extremely problematic. Now a scientist at the University of Basque Country, Spain, has used the process of pyrolisis to … [Read more...]
Recycling levy for tyres?
The production and import of new tyres in South Africa will be subject to a R2,30 a kilogram levy to be used for collection and recycling, the group which will manage a waste tyre management plan said on Tuesday. Uplifting the community The Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan will be implemented and managed by the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of … [Read more...]
