Kwik-Fit’s Green Emphasis
Kwik-Fit, Europe’s largest independent fast-fit company, has been at the forefront of ensuring that tyres collected from its centres are reprocessed for many years. As the company’s range of services has extended in recent years to embrace brake replacement and vehicle servicing and MoT work, so Kwik-Fit has worked with waste management companies to dispose of all waste products.
More than five million tyres and almost 40,000 tons of tyre casings are removed from cars and vans annually by Kwik-Fit. Some tyre casings are remoulded and others, along with tyres, are shredded or crumbed. The resulting material is used as: fuel in the cement industry, in landfill engineering projects, as surfaces at sports and equestrian centres and playground, to make carpet underlay and roof tiles and in producing portable rail crossings. The steel cord in casings is extracted and re-used in steel making.