Adele Rose: On tyres are set to be turned into industrial fuel, concrete mix and even roading

Tyres are set to be turned into industrial fuel, concrete mix and even roading as part of the country's first ever national recycling scheme.

The Government backed scheme called Tyrewise will let tyre shops and members of the public get rid of them for free.

At the moment, just 40 percent of the 6.5 million tyres imported into the country, are recycled.

The scheme will be managed by sustainability group 3R.

CEO Adele Rose says it's a much better option than having them illegally dumped or ending up in landfill.

She says it will reduce the cost and damage of tyre fires substantially.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Another idea to help the environment. This is to do
with tires. We import six and a half million tires
every year. Three point nine million of those end up
on the landfill or dumped. So tire Wise, private scheme
supported by the government, is here to help. Apparently Adel
roses with us on or this adele morning to.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
You morning Mike.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
How many of us even think about it given we
just go down to wherever and you know when you
do the warrant and they flip the tire across and
we just drive a new tire away.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well, I think that that's a good point. And so
what tire Wise does is make sure that once you
leave the store you can be sure that your tire
gets to where you think it's going to go to
an end of life. So by their saving the phase
actually collected by the regulator at point of import on

(00:51):
both tires or MZTA on vehicles and so that money
is then controlled through the supply chain and tire Wise
hayes for that collection make sure that the tie gets
to the processor. Do they actually go Yeah, so they
go to various these about seven different places around New
Zealand where they go to that processors shred and chap

(01:13):
and to tires and a crumb rubber and the largest
proportion goes to golden based in Portland is tied ye fuel.
Most of the processings in Auckland, of course, Orkland, Cambridge
around that area.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Does any of it end up on roads? I thought
they were making it into roads.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well that's what we want. So that's the holy grail
for New Zealand really is being able to put it
back into roading as they do just about everywhere else
in the world. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, imagine if we could fill the potholes with old tires.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Well, imagine this that our roads last thirty percent longer,
twice as nearly twice as durable because of but more
that the money is not being made and going back
and filling in potholes and redoing their road. So that's
what we want. And got a meeting with the MCTA

(02:10):
and Early Teender to try and push that, but only
hold up as procurement we can do it in New Zealand. Yeah,
so yeah, that's where we want our tires and news
ou and going back into roading.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I hope it goes well for you. Adele, appreciate it
very much. Adele Rose tire wise, how many of us
think about where they go and what they end up.
And you can always use them for the little planters.
You take a tire, you fill it with some soil,
you put some potted coloring. If you want a bit
of height, you put two or three tires in, so
you've got elevated potted color. Just ideas. For more from

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