21/10/2026
If you’ve driven the roads of Aotearoa, you’ll be pretty familiar with road cones. Ever wondered where they go when they’re done?
Some of them end up with us.
It’s Recycling Week, so here’s our story.
Matta started in 1992 with one idea: take materials headed for landfill and turn them into something useful. We built a whole new manufacturing process to do it, and created a new kind of safety surfacing along the way.
Since then, we’ve kept more than 60 million kg out of landfill, from road cones to gumboots. It all ends up in playground and workplace surfacing with up to 85% recycled content.
When our surfacing wears out, we can take it back and turn it into new surfacing. Round it goes again.
34 years in, and we’re still at it.
â™» See how we recycle road cones here: https://www.mattaproducts.com/blog/recycling-road-cones-into-safe-and-sustainable-flooring-solutions
