Our Planet Partners

Playtop is leading the way in Aotearoa's surfacing industry in closing the loop on our product lifecycle. As said so well by Nike "It’s all part of our vision for a circular future, one where the concept of waste no longer exists

Nike

Playtops partnership with Nike has allowed us to take hundreds of thousands of used sports shoes from becoming landfill and repurposing the rubber and other sports shoe manufacture waste as safety surfacing. A system we proudly call Playtop with Nike Grind

The History of Nike Grind

Playtops partnership with Future Post means our plastic waste is repurposed as fence posts! In Future Post’s short time operating they have repurposed over 672 million plastic bags and 100 million milk bottles! With a life expectancy of well over 50 years these posts are an incredibly sustainable product.

Treadlite

Playtops Partnership with Treadlite NZ allows us to source the majority of our rubber right here in Aotearoa derived from used truck tyres. Treadlite produce this for Playtop to Playtop specifications. Not only does our partnership with Treadlite take used tyres out of the waste stream, Treadlite also take all our used rubber surfacing from playground repairs and this is chipped up and reused as base layers. This makes our product "circular" which is a step up from recycling, using our own waste and reusing it as the exact product it was before it came to the end of it's useable life.

Tyrewise

Tyrewise connects the whole life cycle of a tyre. A stewardship fee is paid at the beginning of its life and this is used to make it a resource in our circular economy at the end of its life.

The Playtop team use hundreds of tons of used tyres to create the impact absorption layer of safety surfacing helping end of life tyres start another life cycle as a completely different product.