00:00At a cost of more than $50,000 each, the tyres on these giant machines often end up in the
00:11place the minerals being mined were taken from.
00:14Up until now most mining tyres are being buried on site in pit burial methods.
00:21Completely legal, they're completely licensed to do it.
00:23But mining companies are working on solutions to better handle their waste.
00:29This purpose built facility in the Pilbara is part of that shift.
00:37We can give these tyres and conveyor belts a new lease of life and turn them into value
00:42added products.
00:43In Australia almost 100,000 tonnes of mining tyres are buried each year and almost half
00:50of them are right here in WA's Pilbara region.
00:54But now there's calls for the industry to do better.
00:57Well we need government to change the policy that allows mining companies to bury in pit.
01:03If that doesn't change, unfortunately I fear that these companies that have invested may
01:09have their infrastructure mothballed.
01:11With an increasing number of environmentally friendly options for the disposal of these
01:16tyres, the question is whether mining companies will be willing to go the extra mile.
01:23We've got plenty of capacity here and plenty of room for growth as well.
01:29A simple solution to a giant problem.
01:32In this case for mining companies are limited to the
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