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REDISA warns South Africa’s waste tyre crisis is a “ticking time bomb” | SA News

Following the Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts’ recent visit to the Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot in Tlhabane, the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) has called South Africa’s tyre waste management a “ticking time bomb” and is urging the government to take urgent action on the country’s tyre waste “crisis”.

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“The Rustenburg Waste Tyre Depot is not representative of the dire state of depots across the country,” said Stacey Jansen, a director at REDISA.

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