Australia's Tyre Stewardship Data Hub

Passenger Tyres – Covers motorcycle, small and large passenger tyres including SUV tyres.

Truck Tyres – Covers light and heavy-duty truck and bus tyres.

OTR (Off-The-Road) Tyres – Covers tyres used on OTR equipment such as construction and mining equipment, agricultural tractors, industrial equipment, aircraft, and defence equipment.

Used Tyre Generation – A tyre removed from a vehicle generates a ‘used’ tyre, which must then be managed responsibly. ‘Used tyre generation’ is a collective term that refers to both used tyres that are reused and used tyres that have reached their end-of-life.

Fate – The final process of an end-of-life tyre before becoming a new product or unrecoverable. Includes reuse, recycling, energy recovery, burning, onsite burial and landfill.

Reuse – Covers reallocation of a tyre after its initial use, for the same purpose for which it was originally designed. Includes tyre retread and second-hand sale.

Recycling – Covers activities that culminate in tyres being converted into products or raw materials that are returned to productive use, excluding for energy.

Energy Recovery – Covers all processes through which tyres are collected, sorted, and processed to recover energy in usable form, for example process heat, steam or in electricity generation.

Resource Recovery (Recovery) – A collective term for the fates of waste reuse, recycling, and energy recovery. Therefore, the quantity of waste allocated to the fate ‘resource recovery’ is the sum of the quantities allocated to waste reuse, recycling, and energy recovery.

Landfill – Refers to tyres disposed in landfill.

Burning – Incineration of tyres in the open environment without recovery of energy, regardless of whether the act is intentional.

Onsite Burial – Burial of tyres on a site that is not a formal landfill, regardless of whether approved by a regulator, such that the tyres are no longer recoverable.

Dumping – Incidental disposal of tyres on public or private land, with the possibility of subsequent application of a fate.

Stockpiling – The process of aggregating used tyres on a site not belonging to the original tyre owner for more than 12 months, with the possibility of subsequent application of a fate.