Tuning you straight: The tyre
recycling battle
THE latest salvo in the tyre industry’s battle to recycle SA’s old
tyres in “a cost-effective, sustainable and transparant manner” saw the
integrated tyre industry forum (ITIF) meet with the South African National Civic
Organisation to discuss recycling tyres through its 6,1 million members. ITIF
chair, Vishall Premlall, said the “flawed plan” that government had approved,
withdrawn and approved again, would each year charge tyre users some R624
million in levies, before VAT. Premlall said the Recycling and Economic
Development Initiative of SA own statistics show it would fail to collect some
420 000 tons of tyres before the fourth year of its five year plan. The Witness is still waiting on Redisa to tell us how it will
recycle tyres. As it stands, it looks like we will pay millions to move tyres
from one pile to another.
