THE Shire of York has received $75,000 to establish the ‘Drop and Roll’ tyre program to provide residents with a place to dispose of their end-of-life tyres.

Shire of York chief executive officer Alina Behan said the program would allow the shire to collect the tyres for recycling at the York waste transfer station and they would then be made into other materials.

“This is an additional waste stream that was not currently available,” she said.

The funding is part of more than $3.7m in Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) grants allocated to 16 WA regional and remote local government recycling infrastructure projects.

The projects are a joint federal and WA government initiative designed to improve waste sorting, recycling and resource recovery across regional WA and to support plastics, tyre, paper and cardboard recovery.

They will also help support projects to improve the collection, sorting, storage and recycling of materials impacted by Australia’s waste export bans, including plastics, paper and cardboard, and whole used tyres.

Projects funded through the program include upgrades to waste transfer stations, recycling infrastructure, waste handling equipment and access improvements to support more efficient and reliable operations.

The RMF has already supported 14 recycling infrastructure projects across Western Australia, increasing the state’s recycling capacity by 237,700 tonnes each year and strengthening local resource recovery markets.

The projects are expected be completed and operational by June  30, 2027.