September 25, 2018
Innovative thinking for end-of-life tyres
Finding innovative uses for products at the end of their lives is key to solving waste issues and moving to a circular...
ELT end use applications
February 9, 2018
Old tyres – making footpaths that help water trees
Who would have thought? New research from the University of Melbourne and Tasmanian company Merlin Site Services has found a way of recycling...
November 2, 2015
Why are waste tyres not regulated?
Source: Radio New Zealand National Every year three million tyres [Note: Tyrewise believes this is more like 5 million] are put into landfills,...
October 28, 2015
Paul Henry with Greens MP Julie Anne Genter
Paul Henry talks to Greens MP Julie Anne Genter in response to the Environment Minister Nick Smith's offer of funding grants for new ideas...
October 27, 2015
Grants offered for tyre recycling ideas
Source: New Zealand Herald article Environment Minister Nick Smith is offering funding grants for new ideas to recycle about three million old tyres...
August 6, 2015
The man who loves tyres – Seven Sharp
Seven Sharp coverage of Alvin Cobb: Tyre lover Alvin Cobb collects tyres, owns two tyre shops and has filled an abandoned quarry with...
July 30, 2015
Waste tyres economic research
Waste tyres economic research: Intervention options to promote investment in on-shore waste tyres recycling In 2014, the Ministry for the Environment commissioned KPMG...
June 22, 2015
Tyre kingpin wants to export 700,000 tyres for recycling
At the end of a long driveway, hidden from sight in King Country, an Everest of torn, bald and stinking tyres grows...
June 15, 2015
Hamilton’s tyre saga – pressure mounts on central gov’t
Pressure is mounting on Hamiltons MPs to lead action on used tyres, with community leaders saying central government needs to show leadership...
June 5, 2015
Ruling Punctures Tyres Project
Industry experts are angry with a government decision to not give tyres special status, which in turn has scuppered plans to roll out a recycling scheme. The news...