Moving the dial on vehicle stewardship
Each year in Aotearoa it’s estimated more than 150,000 cars are taken off the road. We also replace more than 7 million tyres and 80,000 car bumpers, as well as many other vehicle related parts. Some vehicle materials are recycled or repurposed when they reach their end of life, however outcomes are varied, with a loss of useful resources to landfill.
Auto Stewardship New Zealand is a not-for-profit charitable trust created to help accelerate sustainable outcomes for vehicles in Aotearoa by providing best practice product stewardship governance.
Established in 2013, Auto Stewardship New Zealand (ASNZ) was originally set up to provide the governance structure required for the Tyrewise™ project, a proposed regulated product stewardship scheme for end of life tyres under the Waste Minimisation Act 2008.
We know that all parts of a vehicle will require stewarding in future. To this end, ASNZ stakeholders have made a commitment to progress ‘whole of vehicle’ stewardship.
ASNZ is a future-proofed governance structure that can act as the Product Stewardship Organisation required for any vehicle related scheme – from whole of vehicles, through to tyres (Tyrewise programme), large batteries (B.I.G. project) and commonly replaced items like car bumpers.
Our objectives
Be the Product Stewardship Organisation for schemes that steward any vehicle related product
Promote the adoption of programmes by the auto industry for environmentally sound waste management practices
Promote the aims of product stewardship in the auto industry to the benefit and advantage of all New Zealanders
Collaborate to grow stewardship programmes for the auto industry
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Latest news
- Regulation approved to manage old tyres Regulation now gazetted will change the way New Zealand manages the 6.5 million tyres that reach their end of life every year.
- The future for end-of-life vehiclesLeading New Zealand motor industry publication Autofile recently chatted to Auto Stewardship New Zealand Chair Mark GilbertContinue reading “The future for end-of-life vehicles”
- Long road to national tyre recycling scheme has paid offIt’s been a long road – some 10 years – since the Tyrewise project kicked off, but all that work, and patience, has come to fruition.
- NZ’s tyre recycling scheme preparing for 2023 startNew Zealand’s first nationwide regulated product stewardship scheme for recycling used tyres is expected to start operating in 2023.
- Auto Stewardship NZ celebrates regulated tyre stewardshipMedia release Auto Stewardship New Zealand (ASNZ) is celebrating the accreditation of New Zealand’s first regulated productContinue reading “Auto Stewardship NZ celebrates regulated tyre stewardship”
Get involved
If you are involved in the production, import or sale of a vehicle related product that needs stewardship, or simply want to know more about Auto Stewardship New Zealand, we’d love to hear from you.
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