Bay Harbour: August 16, 2017

Wednesday <strong>August</strong> <strong>16</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

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BAY HARBOUR<br />

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Your Local Views<br />

Old tyres should be recycled more<br />

There are<br />

News<br />

better ways<br />

of dealing<br />

with used<br />

car tyres<br />

than<br />

stockpiling<br />

or landfill,<br />

writes Green MP<br />

Eugenie Sage<br />

Fashion<br />

A big new tyre storage site in<br />

Port Hills Rd got me thinking<br />

about what happens to old<br />

tyres.<br />

Stockpiling tyres outdoors<br />

risks heavy metals from the<br />

rain runoff leaching into<br />

stormwater and waterways<br />

and serious air pollution in the<br />

event of a fire.<br />

Kiwi car and truck drivers<br />

Gardening<br />

generate around four million<br />

used car tyres and one million<br />

used truck and other vehicle<br />

tyres each year. Around 70<br />

per cent of these end up in<br />

landfills, stored on land or<br />

unaccounted for. Very few are<br />

recycled. That’s a huge waste of<br />

resources.<br />

Too many reusable and<br />

Motoring<br />

recyclable materials are being<br />

landfilled each year. This is<br />

partly because commercial<br />

landfill levies are too low to<br />

encourage other options, making<br />

waste disposal the cheapest<br />

option.<br />

It’s also because New Zealand<br />

has a very weak concept<br />

of product stewardship<br />

– where manufacturers and<br />

sellers take responsibility for<br />

the whole life cycle of goods<br />

they produce and sell.<br />

In an effort to deal with<br />

around three million of the<br />

five million tyres dumped<br />

each year, the Government has<br />

decided to give $17.4 million<br />

to Waste Management New<br />

Zealand and Golden <strong>Bay</strong><br />

Cement to burn old rubber<br />

tyres as part of a cement<br />

making process.<br />

Waste Management NZ<br />

will get $6.4 million towards<br />

building two tyre shredding<br />

machines, one in Christchurch<br />

and the other in Auckland.<br />

Most of the mulched tyres<br />

will be shipped north to the<br />

country’s biggest concrete<br />

maker, Golden <strong>Bay</strong> Cement<br />

near Whangarei. It’ll get $13.6<br />

million from Government<br />

and also use the steel rims<br />

from the tyres in the cement<br />

manufacture.<br />

The scheme will reduce the<br />

amount of coal used to make<br />

cement but it will cause significant<br />

air pollution. And it<br />

is loading the costs of dealing<br />

with used tyres onto the wider<br />

public, rather onto tyre manufacturers,<br />

sellers and users.<br />

A better option would be to<br />

put a price on tyre waste at the<br />

point of sale which covers the<br />

full costs of tyre collection, recycling<br />

and re-use. This would<br />

probably mean vehicle owners<br />

paying more for new tyres.<br />

I’d also like to see tyres declared<br />

a priority product under<br />

our limited product stewardship<br />

scheme to help encourage<br />

new uses for old tyres. A local<br />

builder recently emailed me<br />

with his suggestion of using<br />

old tyres in Rib-raft type foundations<br />

for new homes.<br />

Increasing our landfill levies<br />

could bring in up more revenue<br />

to help support research<br />

and new recycling processes<br />

and businesses. How do you<br />

think we can achieve better<br />

product stewardship to reduce<br />

what we send to landfill?<br />

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