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Welcome to the Tyre Recovery Association website
The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) represents the UK’s tyre recovery sector, which processes over 40 million used tyres every year. A key role is to represent and promote good practice within the tyre recovery sector and to provide an externally audited, legally compliant tyre collection and recovery service which provides protection and peace of mind for all those who generate waste tyres across the UK.
Latest News
Tyre Recovery Association to launch pyrolysis group
In response to the growing interest in tyre pyrolysis in the UK and beyond, the Tyre Recovery Association is to launch a sub-group of interested members to address a number…
Don’t be a victim The TRA’s warning to landowners
Recent incidents across the UK suggest that waste tyre crime is on the increase despite the fact that the UK has both the capacity and the infrastructure to deal legally…
Waste Tyre Collection – FOI response reveals true scale of operator non-compliance
A Freedom of Information request* has starkly exposed levels of non-compliance by many operators claiming ‘T8 exemptions’ for their recycling businesses. In 2019, inspections of almost sixty sites carried out…