Cleaner Environment

Problems encountered with disposal of waste tyres:

• Illegal Burning to recover steel wire
  Tyres are burnt by the informal sector to recover the steel content. For this they only receive a few cents per tyre. This produces major pollution of the air in SA.
• Dumped in the veldt
  Waste tyres dumped in the veldt have harmful health implications by creating ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, rodents and other insects.
• Landfill sites not accepting tyres
  Landfill sites are filling up at an alarming rate and they either no longer accept tyres or charge a fee of up to R15 per tyre or R150 per ton or more.

Advantages of the proposed Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan for the public and previously disadvantaged people:

• Removing waste tyres presently being burnt in the veldt, next to schools, houses, clinics and airfields causing toxic fumes especially in informal settlements
• Removing waste tyres in the veldt catching rain water and breeding mosquitoes and rodents
• Preventing unsightly waste tyres dumped in and around townships and the veldt
• Projects will cater for planned future removal of waste stockpiles in and around townships.
• Flow of waste tyres from tyre dealers into the informal settlements will stop reducing the burden of waste in the areas