Bridgestone New Zealand Limited - WasteMINZ · 2017-02-01 · (kg CO 2-e /100,000 km) Retread tyre...

Bridgestone New Zealand Limited

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Copyright © 2011 Bridgestone Corporation

Tyre Summit – Bridgestone Overview

Bridgestone imports quality tyres

– all made to Bridgestone global quality standards

regardless of country of manufacture

Bridgestone is the tyre industry leader

Operations across New Zealand

– wholesaling and retailing of tyres, supply and maintain

commercial fleets with new and retreaded truck tyres

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Environmentally conscious company- global commitment

Reduction targets by 2020 - 35% CO2

Improve rolling efficiency by 25%

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BSNZ Carbon Reduction 2013-2014


Low Rolling Resistant Tyres

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Bandag is our retread brand

Largest truck retreader in NZ

o Quality ISO9001, Safety AS4801, Environmental ISO14001

o Pre-cured tread that meet the needs of the NZ market

o Rain water harvesting

o Solar Panels for factory operation

o Aiming for zero waste

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• Bandag retread >120,000 tyres/yr

• Savings each year:

> 5,800 tonnes of waste to landfill

> 7,500,000 Million litres of oil

> 15,500 tonnes of CO2 per year.

• Prevents truck tyres from

prematurely entering the waste

stream

• Lowers transport costs

• All Bridgestone truck tyres are

retreadable

WHAT BANDAG SAVES NZ


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BANDAG RETREADS SAVE OIL, CO2 AND LANDFILL



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New tyre model (kg CO2-e

/100,000 km)

Retread tyre model (kg CO2-e

/100,000 km)

Difference (kg CO2-e

/100,000 km)

Reduction in greenhouse gas

emissions

224 123 101 45%

Carbon footprint (Greenhouse gas emissions)

Number of retreads

1 2 3

Reduction in greenhouse gas

emissions 34% 45% 51%

Influence of number of retreads



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New tyre model (kg Solid Waste

/100,000km)

Retread tyre model (kg Solid Waste

/100,000km)

Difference (kg Solid Waste

/100,000km)

Reduction in solid waste to landfill

52 20 32 61%

Solid waste to landfill

Number of retreads

1 2 3

Reduction in solid waste to landfill

46% 61% 69%

Influence of number of retreads



Environmental - Waste tyres

Why should we recycle tyres?

– Corporate Social Responsibility • Community Health

• Fire Hazard

• Reduce waste to landfill

– It’s the right thing to do

– Stop illegal dumping

– Good news for the Tyre Industry

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The Impact of Waste Tyres

affects our Health, Lifestyle & the

Environment


New Zealand is a Poor Performer

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Tyre Recycling Across the World

Energy Recovery % Recycling %

- NZ potentially the

worst performing

developed nation in the

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- NZ one of a small

group exporting whole

tyres to developing

countries

- NZ seem to have been

discussing the issue

for decades

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Tyres dumped in

Vietnam

Health Risk


DENGUE FEVER and other

mosquito borne viruses

• Incidence increase

internationally

• Most rapid spreading mosquito-

borne viral disease with 30 fold

increase in the last 50 years.

• WHO directly attributes the

spread of the dengue vector

to international trade in used

tyres.

Health Risk

Fire Risk

In 2010, this small tyre fire in Tasmania burnt for 3 days and forced health officials to issue warnings about the toxicity of the smoke. Last year the same site caught fire again, causing $300,000 in property damage.

May ‘12 – A fire at an unlicensed tyre recycling operation near Shepparton Victoria caught fire. The blaze required 22 fire trucks and 100+ fire fighters to bring the blaze under control.

1984 – 4million tyres, known as Mt Firestone, ignited in Everett, Washington, and burnt for months as fire fighters are unable to extinguish it.

1989 – 10million illegally dumped tyres catch fire near Powys Wales and subsequently burn for at least 15 years.

1990 – Hagersville, Ontario, 12-14 million tires caught fire; it burned for 17 days & forced 4,000 people to evacuate.

1998 –Grass fires ignite 7 million tyres at an unlicensed Disposal Facility in Tracy, California. Extinguished after 26 months.

1999 – Lightning struck a tire dump in Westley, California, which burned for 30 days. Pyrolitic oil flowed into a nearby stream and also ignited.

2012 – Jahra, Kuwait, 5 million tyre ignite on April 16. A major ecological disaster, the smoke is visible from space

2012 – In Iowa City a fire started in tyre bedding material at the Iowa City Landfill. It is extinguished after 18 days.


Illegal dumping

- Potentially widespread illegal activity

- Only a matter of time before connections to

organised crime as seen in Australia

- Some retailers are being ‘conned’

- Bridgestone implemented CCTV and

additional security to COS to mitigate

dumping on premises


John Staples – Group General Manager NZ Business

[email protected]

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