Porsche dealerships sign up to tyre recycling initiative

The national network of Porsche Centres in Australia have signed up to a tyre recycling initiative.

It is part of a national commitment Porsche Cars Australia has made to tyre recycling in partnership with Tyre Stewardship Australia.

The agreement will ensure end-of-life tyres from all Porsche Centres will be collected and disposed of by a TSA-accredited recycler.

It will also include tyres from PCA’s own fleet, included those cars from the Porsche Track Experience program.

Tyre Stewardship Australia is an industry led framework that aims to reduce the environmental, health and safety impacts of end-of-life tyres.

Its Tyre Stewardship Scheme is government supported and authorised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

“Sustainability is an essential pillar of our corporate strategy at Porsche,” Porsche Cars Australia managing director and chief executive officer Sam Curtis says.

“This tyre recycling initiative is one of many steps we are taking here in Australia to continually enhance our environmental and social responsibility efforts,” he says.

It is estimated that the equivalent of 56 million used tyres are generated from passenger vehicles in Australia every year with only 10% recycled in Australia.

TSA has been instrumental in developing new markets for tyre-derived products. It has committed $6million (AUD) to projects that use end-of-life tyres in new value-added products.

“Although more than half of Australia’s used tyres are recycled, upcycled or reprocessed into other products, the equivalent of 27 million car tyres are wasted each year. These often end up in landfill, stockpiles or are exported overseas,” Tyre Stewardship Australia chief executive officer Lina Goodman says.

End-of-life tyres can be recycled into rubber and tile adhesive, brake pads, rubber mats and commercial flooring, road surfacing and asphalt and also used an alternative fuel to produce cement.