Moving the dial on vehicle stewardship

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.

This is particularly critical given the clean car discount package announced in mid-2021. Our stakeholders consider New Zealand will need a comprehensive motor vehicle scrappage strategy as older cars become less desirable.

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

Latest news

• Long road to national tyre recycling scheme has paid off
  It’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 start
  New 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 stewardship
  Media 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”
• Scrappage plan needs substantial incentives according to MTA
  The Motor Trade Association (MTA) has outlined details of a scrappage scheme to get greener and saferContinue reading “Scrappage plan needs substantial incentives according to MTA”
• Tyre industry pumped by Government announcement
  TYREWISE MEDIA RELEASE Dumping and stockpiling of tyres will become a thing of the past after theyContinue reading “Tyre industry pumped by Government announcement”

Find out more

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.