70 000 Tyres a Day: How South Africa’s Waste Tyre Crisis Is Spiralling Out of Control

70 000 tyres a day: How South Africa’s waste tyre crisis is spiralling out of control

South Africa is generating an estimated 70 000 waste tyres every single day, with experts saying the country is losing the ability to manage the excess. The non-profit Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) has warned that the situation is reaching a critical point. According to the NPC, tyre depots across the country are dangerously overfull and pose serious environmental and public health risks. The warning foll…

REDISA Raises Red Flag on South African ELT

Following a visit by the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts’ to the Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot in Tlhabane, the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa has declared the country’s tyre waste management a “ticking time bomb” “The Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot is not representative of the dire state of depots across the country,” said Stacey Jansen, a director at REDISA. REDISA has formal…

REDISA warns South Africa’s waste tyre crisis is a “ticking time bomb”

Image credit: Photo by David Edelstein on UnsplashFollowing the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts' recent visit to the Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot in Tlhabane, the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) has called South Africa's tyre waste management a "ticking time bomb" and is urging the government to take urgent action on the country’s tyre waste "crisis". Read more...