Construction of Western Australia's first full service tyre recycling facility, in the Jandakot Airport Industrial Estate, will start in the coming weeks.

Construction of Western Australia's first full service tyre recycling facility, in the Jandakot Airport Industrial Estate, will start in the coming weeks.

The Complete Tyre Solutions plant, which the company has invested more than $20 million in, is expected to recycle more than 9,000 tonnes of waste tyres into three-millimetre crumb rubber, high-tensile steel wire and textile.

The recycled material would be reused with the crumb rubber for the asphalt and spray seal industry and the textile for stuffing.

According to Complete Tyre Solutions, thousands of waste tyres representing millions of tonnes of rubber and steel are usually piled onto open pits or buried on mine sites across Australia.

The tyre recycling process has been used internationally but would be a first for WA, particularly for type and size of tyre used on massive haul trucks in the mining sector.

Complete Tyre Solutions will be using MT Rex, a machine with a "pre-shredding process" that would be able to recycle the massive tyres currently imcompatible with existing recycling equipment.

Federal member for Fremantle Josh Wilson (left), Complete Tyre Solutions managing director Leigh Cometti and Environment Minister Reece Whitby. Photo: Michael Bailon. 

The commonwealth and state government contributed $20 million funding towards the project under the Recycling Modernisation fund.

Environment Minister Reece Whitby and Complete Tyre Solutions managing director Leigh Cometti held a sod-turning event on site today.

"Reusing waste promotes resource efficiency, protects the environment and helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. I encourage all Western Australians to avoid waste and increase material recovery," Mr Whitby said.

"I am confident that this new tyre recycling project will benefit many Western Australians and our environment."

Mr Cometti said this was the road ahead to a sustainable circular economy for one of the world's most used circular products.

“This the new facility will assist major players in the mining and resources sector to deal with the disposal of millions of tonnes of end-of-life tyres that are often piled into open pits or left buried on mine sites,” he said.

CTS is considering investing in a second pre-shredding plant in Port Hedland.