Tyre Heaven
By Neil Sherratt
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Tyre Heaven
Project 2013-09-28 06:39:04 +1200
Tyre Heaven seeks to eradicate the mountains of waste tyres that are contaminating the NZ countryside. We seek to raise enough cash in order to help pay the costs of collecting and disposing of waste tyres in an advanced waste tyre processing plant built in the UK. New Zealand produces circa 65,000 metric tonne in waste tyres per annum that end up in both legal and illegal landfills, farmer's paddocks, dairy farm silage stacks, dumped along river banks and any other place they can be hidden.
The problem is getting worse now that local Councils no longer take tyres at landfill. From an environmental perspective waste tyres are: The processing plant we seek to get converts the tyres into useful and sellable outputs including:
Everything is used - nothing is wasted. Hence the name Tyre Heaven :-)
Our proposition to New Zealand includes:
Here are some recent articles about waste tyres: Waikato Regional Council website –September 26th 2013 – Tyre burner fined $20,000 - http://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/Community/Whats-happening/News/Media-releases/Tyre-burner-aggressive-towards-Fire-Service--/
NZ Herald – Monday August 5th 2013 – New Consents needed for waste tyres - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11106598 Stuff – March 27th 2013 – Tyre Dealers Concerned of Dumping - http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8478635/Tyre-dealers-concerned-at-dumping-reports Scoop – Wednesday Jan 16th 2013 – million tyre dumper does a runner - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1301/S00287/million-tyres-dumper-does-a-runner.htm Stuff – December 6th 2011 – Illegal dumping costs city $1.2 million - http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6088449/Illegal-dumping-costs-city-1-2m
The NZ Government are behind the massive issue of what to do with the waste tyres. In March 2012 the Government funded an initiative called Tyrewise (http://tyrewise.co.nz) with the view to find a suitable solution. A solution has been found a proposal is currently in front of the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) for review. Key points to this solution include:
The NZ Government are doing their bit by making waste tyres a high prioroty issue. Now its Tyre Heaven's turn to do the real work of cleaning up the country and your generous contributions will help us pay the costs of doing this.
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Tyre Heaven Website
29/10/2013 at 9:36 AM
Hi,
Just to let you know that we have launched a website for tyre heaven. This can be seen at http://www.tyreheaven.com
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Tyre Heaven
Project 2013-09-28 06:39:04 +1200
Tyre Heaven seeks to eradicate the mountains of waste tyres that are contaminating the NZ countryside. We seek to raise enough cash in order to help pay the costs of collecting and disposing of waste tyres in an advanced waste tyre processing plant built in the UK. New Zealand produces circa 65,000 metric tonne in waste tyres per annum that end up in both legal and illegal landfills, farmer's paddocks, dairy farm silage stacks, dumped along river banks and any other place they can be hidden.
The problem is getting worse now that local Councils no longer take tyres at landfill. From an environmental perspective waste tyres are: The processing plant we seek to get converts the tyres into useful and sellable outputs including:
Everything is used - nothing is wasted. Hence the name Tyre Heaven :-)
Our proposition to New Zealand includes:
Here are some recent articles about waste tyres: Waikato Regional Council website –September 26th 2013 – Tyre burner fined $20,000 - http://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/Community/Whats-happening/News/Media-releases/Tyre-burner-aggressive-towards-Fire-Service--/
NZ Herald – Monday August 5th 2013 – New Consents needed for waste tyres - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11106598 Stuff – March 27th 2013 – Tyre Dealers Concerned of Dumping - http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/8478635/Tyre-dealers-concerned-at-dumping-reports Scoop – Wednesday Jan 16th 2013 – million tyre dumper does a runner - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1301/S00287/million-tyres-dumper-does-a-runner.htm Stuff – December 6th 2011 – Illegal dumping costs city $1.2 million - http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/6088449/Illegal-dumping-costs-city-1-2m
The NZ Government are behind the massive issue of what to do with the waste tyres. In March 2012 the Government funded an initiative called Tyrewise (http://tyrewise.co.nz) with the view to find a suitable solution. A solution has been found a proposal is currently in front of the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) for review. Key points to this solution include:
The NZ Government are doing their bit by making waste tyres a high prioroty issue. Now its Tyre Heaven's turn to do the real work of cleaning up the country and your generous contributions will help us pay the costs of doing this.
Comments
Tyre Heaven Website
29/10/2013 at 9:36 AM
Hi,
Just to let you know that we have launched a website for tyre heaven. This can be seen at http://www.tyreheaven.com