Waste tyre plan given the go-ahead following court battle
In a judgment handed down in late May, the Bloemfontein-based Supreme Court of Appeal found in favour of Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa, and against the Retail Motor Industry, in a case brought against the Minister to block the implementation of the Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan (IIWTMP).
In delivering judgment, the presiding judge dismissed the key grounds of complaint, with the proviso that solid tyres, which constituted 2% of total yearly tyre production, be excluded.
The implementation of the plan, which had been delayed for more than 12 months owing to court proceedings, would now be ramped up to deliver against the mandated plan.
Engineering News reported in November that the IIWTMP, a Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (Redisa) project, was aimed at reducing the number of waste tyres in South Africa by incentivising the collection and recycling process, subsidised through a per-kilogramme levy on tyres manufactured in or imported into South Africa.
The levy of R2.30/kg on new locally made or imported tyres would be deployed to provide an incentive for the formal and informal recycling sectors to collect waste tyres and gather them at central depots from where disposal would be managed.
Redisa CEO Hermann Erdmann said that, following discussions with key players in the tyre industry, it was clear that resistance to the plan was not representative of the industry as a whole.
“We are delighted by the outcome of this judgment, which has thoroughly tested the principles of the plan and found them to be sound. We can now move ahead with the original intention of the plan, which is to remove waste tyres from the environment, while creating jobs and building a recycling industry,” he commented.
Erdmann added that the first step of the IIWTMP would be to establish collection and recycling networks.
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