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In the Media
Press coverage and opinion pieces about REDISA and South Africa’s waste tyre crisis, newest first. Click through to read each article on the publisher’s website.
Response to IOL reporting on Resolve Communications and REDISA
IOL | REDISA’s Stacey Jansen responds to IOL’s coverage of the organisation’s work with Resolve Communications. She argues that using communications support to call out failures in waste tyre management is normal democratic advocacy, not a political attack.
While we argue about who met which minister, waste tyres are still a crisis
News24 | With all the attention on REDISA’s meetings with ministers, Chris Crozier says the real story is being missed.
The practical policy solution to South Africa’s waste crisis
Sunday Tribune | Chris Crozier looks at why South Africa’s Extended Producer Responsibility schemes bring in a lot of money but deliver poor results. His answer is governance: when the industry that pays the fees also controls the scheme, there is little reason to cut waste.
Recycling Day raises the question: Where is SA’s waste plan?
Bizcommunity | Writing around Global Recycling Day, Stacey Jansen takes a hard look at the draft National Waste Management Strategy. She finds it rests on unreliable data, has no clear funding model and overlooks basics like working weighbridges at municipal sites.
What waste tyre management teaches us about effective economic policy
IOL Business Report | 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.
Governance failures leave South Africa’s waste tyre logistics system in crisis – Redisa
Logistics Business Africa | REDISA warns that weak oversight and a shortage of recycling capacity are causing South Africa’s waste tyre logistics system to break down.
70 000 tyres a day: How South Africa’s waste tyre crisis is spiralling out of control
The South African | South Africa is producing an estimated 70 000 waste tyres every day, and the system meant to deal with them is not keeping up.
REDISA warns South Africa’s waste tyre crisis is a “ticking time bomb”
Bizcommunity | After Deputy Minister Bernice Swarts visited the Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot, REDISA warned that the country’s waste tyre system is a ticking time bomb.
Governance failures turning waste tyre depots into public health, environmental hazards – Redisa
Engineering News | REDISA says the Rustenburg depot shown during the Deputy Minister’s visit does not reflect the real state of waste tyre depots around the country. It points instead to Biesiesvlei near Lichtenburg, which caught fire in 2023.
REDISA, alive and well, presents demo tour of Product Testing Institute
SA Polymer Technology | SA Polymer Technology covers a demonstration tour of the Product Testing Institute (PTI) in the Coega IDZ, Gqeberha. The PTI was developed by REDISA and is the only lab in Africa that can do full tyre testing, including rolling resistance, load and endurance tests.
REDISA Updates
Reports, updates and positions published by REDISA.
Carte Blanche REDISA Update
In 2012 Carte Blanche started investigating allegations that had been made against REDISA, and aired several stories about REDISA between 2015 and 2017. The update broadcast on 16 July 2023 brings the story up to date in light of the January 2019 judgment of the
Waste Tyres for Power Generation
It is often suggested that waste tyres could be a useful source of power generation. We explain why this is not significant in the national picture. A copy of the technical memo can be downloaded here.
REDISA Report on Waste Tyre Management in SA
Summary: Waste Tyre Management in SA REDISA has written a report covering the context, opportunities, history, and status quo of waste tyre management in South Africa from the early 2000s to the present day. I A copy of the report can be downloaded here. Waste Tyre
IndWTMP published 7/12/2022
New Plan Disappoints The DFFE published a draft Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan (IndWTMP) for comment on 7 December 2022, closing date 6 February 2023. This latest IndWTMP unfortunately falls short as much as the earlier Draft 9 previously commented on, and seems to have
No Tyre Plan In Sight, Policy Unclear
Government efforts to develop a new plan are not encouraging. In March 2020 draft 9 of the CSIR Section 29 plan was published. The plan has multiple problems and internal contradictions. The comments REDISA submitted can be read here. The April 2022 report by the research organisation Trade