Cape Town, 25 January 2012 –The implementation of the Integrated Industry Waste Tyre Management Plan by the Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa (REDISA) is to be extended. This is in order for Government to re-gazette the plan. This also allows REDISA to make provision for the inclusion of additional parties; to accept further public comment, in line with regulations; and accommodate the huge demand for its services.
Given that 681 interested entrepreneurs and small businesses, have already registered and shown their support for the REDISA plan, this extension affords REDISA the opportunity to address the overwhelming interest the announcement of the plan has provoked. While this delay is very disappointing, REDISA will use the time to refine delivery of the plan so that the waste tyre problem in South Africa is on the road to recovery.
Setting the record straight
There has been some coverage in the media that has included unfounded allegations concerning REDISA’s CEO, Hermann Erdmann. Erdmann, with the full backing of REDISA, its supporters and associates, repudiates these defamatory remarks. They have no foundation and they are untrue.
REDISA has and will continue to conduct its business in a fully transparent, honest, open and fair manner with all stakeholders. REDISA’s sole aim is to create a sustainable solution to the real waste tyre problem by including the informal sector, which, until now, has been marginalized.
Erdmann welcomes interviews with and questions from the media if channeled through Wired Communications; this is to ensure that all queries are handled expediently.
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