What waste tyre management teaches us about effective economic policy

Chris Crozier argues that economic recovery does not depend only on big infrastructure projects. Practical, well-designed systems can do a lot of the work too.

REDISA’s waste tyre programme is his example: it created around 3 000 jobs and 226 small businesses at no cost to the state before it was shut down in 2017. He calls for proven systems like this to be brought back, with stable funding, reliable data and private sector partnership.