African tyre recycling plan stolen, says association
If an article in one South African newspaper is correct, the concept behind the country’s new tyre recycling scheme was stolen from another organisation. The New Age has printed claims made by Jeff Osborne, CEO of industry association the Retail Motor Industry (RMI). According to The New Age, Osborne says the REDISA plan, approved by the South African government last week, was “stolen from under their noses by the former chairperson of a sister organisation.”
The New Age reports that plans for a similar recycling plan were drawn up by the RMI when current REDISA CEO Hermann Erdmann was chairman of a subsidiary organisation, the Tyre Dealers and Fitment Centre Association (TDAFA). Osborne alleges that Erdmann then tweaked the plan slightly and cut the RMI out. Erdmann will, the newspaper says, personally earn R700 million (£55,000) annually from the scheme.
“The TDAFA, through its members, paid a significant amount to RTK Attorneys, among others, to help draft the plan,” The New Age quoted Osborne as saying. “When it was finalised, Erdmann was supposed to submit the plan to the Department of Environmental Affairs, but he withdrew it. He simply made a few changes and resubmitted it under a different name, the REDISA plan.”
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