Question NW2535 to the Minister of Environmental Affairs

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18 September 2018 - NW2535

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Hadebe, Mr TZ to ask the Minister of Environmental Affairs

With regard to Tyre Derived Fuel (TDF) suppliers, (a) who currently processes and supplies TDF to cement kilns, (b) who are the contracted TDF suppliers, (c) what offtake agreement is in place for TDF, (d) what amount is charged to each cement kiln per ton of TDF delivered to site, and (e) who transports the TDF to the cement kilns?

Reply:

a) To the best of my knowledge, only the Waste Bureau is providing TDF to cement kilns, and this is currently in the form of whole passenger tyres.

b) See (a) above.

c) The Waste Bureau is currently contracted with cement kilns as part of the approvals that were received from Treasury to be able to contract with service providers/operators that were previously contracted with the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) for a period of one year; and the contracts with cement kilns stipulate the quantities to be supplied, and this differs for each facility.

d) The Waste Bureau currently supplies whole passenger tyres to cement kilns (unprocessed), and there is no charge for this; the contract with cement kilns included a payment of R310 per ton of waste tyres co-processed in the kilns for the period from 01 October 2017 to 31 March 2018, and no payment from 01 April 2018 onwards.

e) The Waste Bureau transports waste tyres to cement kilns at its own cost.

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