No more tyres to landfills !

Finally a company has arrived that can stop end-of-life tyres ending up in New Zealand’s landfills. Carbon Recovery Ltd can collect and process your scrap tyres into a reusable resource. No longer will we need to shred and landfill millions of tyres every year in New Zealand. Tyres are often viewed as a problem waste product and in New Zealand that equates to around 14,000 needing disposal every day or just over 4 million per year. That’s a lot of tyres and an enormous amount of potential energy being thrown away.

Here’s what you can do to help:

You – the tyre consumer

• Next time you get new tyres for your car or truck tell your tyre retailer you want your old tyres to be recycled and have them contact Carbon Recovery.
• You can access our pricelist here.

Local Authorities

• Stop accepting tyres at your council owned or managed landfills and divert those tyres for recovery.
• Charge the true cost of accepting tyres at your transfer stations so that we can recover and recycle them.
• Use Carbon Recovery Ltd to sustainably clean up illegally dumped tyres or tyre piles in your area.
• Request tyres be designated as a priority product within the Waste Minimisation Act 2008
• Encourage the tyre industry and government to institute a mandatory advanced recycle fee (ARF) to reduce transfer station fees and the temptation to illegally dump tyres.
• And… make sure waste tyres from your council vehicle fleet are not shredded and landfilled.

Business & Industry

• Ensure your tyre providers recover and recycle your company’s waste tyres
• Include recovery and recycling of your tyre waste stream as part of your overall sustainability practices
• With less waste going to landfill and more sorted for recovery, tyre recycling can help you meet your obligations under the Waste Minimisation Act.

Tyre Importers & Retailers

• Charge the true cost of accepting waste tyres from your customers and remit this fee to genuine tyre recyclers
• Only release waste tyres to companies that recycle them and never to those that put them in landfill or export them
• Request tyres be designated as a priority product within the Waste Minimisation Act 2008
• Encourage government to institute a mandatory advanced recycle fee (ARF) to be applied to all tyres at the point of importation to ensure all tyre importers and retailers participate

Government

• Have tyres declared a Priority Product
• Fast track a Tyre Product Stewardship Scheme to:
  • Prevent or substantially reduce the disposal of end of life tyres to landfill
  • Reduce the environmental and human health risks associated with the inappropriate disposal of end of life tyres and
  • Substantially increase the resource recovery from end of life tyres
• Allow the Programme to be industry lead with regulatory enforcement so that all importers, manufacturers and retailers participate.
• Require the Product Stewardship Scheme charge an Advanced Recycling Fee on all tyres imported or manufactured in New Zealand.

Call Carbon Recovery Ltd

• We want your end-of-life tyres and we’ll make sure tyres are no longer left in the environment or dumped into landfills.
• Tyres are recycled world-wide – we can solve the tyre problem in New Zealand.
• Contact us today!