Eh: It has been a very long haul from 2001 until now to work through all the stakeholders and organs of state. By contrast, it took the French Government only 18 months to approve similar plans earlier this century. We in SA obviously still have a lot to learn in order to create waste tyre industries and jobs. The waste tyre problem has been recognized as a serious environmental issue for the last 30 years and has reached near crisis proportions, which prompted the SA tyre industry to invest millions of Rands, in fact, close to R10 million to date, in research and development to come up with a workable solution to the problem. All we need to do now is to make it work but we cannot proceed without the Plan being promulgated. It is on the Minister of Environmental Affair’s desk for final approval to gazetting.
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