Western Australia’s Environment Minister Reece Whitby today turned the first sod on WA’s newest tyre recycling plant – a $7 million facility in the Jandakot Airport Industrial Estate.
The Complete Tyre Solutions facility will be able to process passenger, car, truck, industrial construction, and quarry tyres into three-millimetre crumb rubber, reusable high tensile wire and reusable textile. The crumb rubber will be produced to specification for use in the Western Australia asphalt and spray seal industry.
The project is part of the $20 million joint Commonwealth and State Government funding under the Recycling Modernisation Fund.
Whitby said projects such as this demonstrate the McGowan Government’s commitment to innovation within the recycling industry.
“Reusing waste promotes resource efficiency, protects the environment and helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I encourage all Western Australians to avoid waste and increase material recovery,” he said.
“I am confident that this new tyre recycling project will benefit many Western Australians and our environment.”
With an annual processing capability of more than 9000 tonnes, the project will help WA manage the impacts of the ban on exporting waste tyres.
Australia’s world-leading waste export bans came into effect on 1 December 2021 and were aimed at stopping the shipping of whole baled tyres for disposal overseas. It was estimated the ban would prevent 61,000 tonnes of waste tyres being sent overseas each year.
In December, then Environment Minister Sussan Ley said more than $24.4 million had been invested across tyre processing infrastructure projects around Australia which would generate more than 104,260 tonnes of tyre processing capacity.
New state-of-the-art recycling facilities are being established to recycle tyres into roads, playgrounds, athletics tracks, fashion items and other consumer products.
Construction on the Jandakot site is set to begin within weeks.
For more information, visit: www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au
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