A proposal by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) to ban the use of tyre-derived rubber infill in sports surfaces has been deemed incomprehensible and counter-intuitive by members of Britain’s Tyre Recovery Association. The ECHA is pushing for a ban on…
The TRA is urging the Environment Agency to exercise increased vigilance over operators who use the current relaxation of stockpile permitting rules to increase the storage of waste tyres beyond levels they have the financial resources to recycle responsibly…
The UK’s Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) is warning that recent steep increases in the cost of old tyre disposal may lead to a significant rise in the illegal dumping of old tyres on private land and in fly-tipping generally. A…
Tyre retailers, vehicle dismantlers and others who need to dispose of waste tyres are urged to beware of unrealistically low rates at a time when reprocessing costs in particular are soaring warns the TRA. Tyre Recovery Association Secretary General, Peter…
The TRA warns Britain’s vehicle dismantlers and retailers of inevitable price increases Moves by India’s environmental regulators to tighten up on waste recovery practices particularly in relation to the processing of end-of-life tyres in unauthorised facilities are driving a big…
- New requirements for data validation - Enhanced permit compliance verification - End distinction waste tracking Almost two decades ago the TRA launched a unique audit initiative to rate its members ‘better than the rest’. Dubbed the Responsible Recycler Scheme,…
The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has launched a new group on LinkedIn. Going forward, the group will promote the work of the TRA, its Responsible Recycler Scheme (RRS), highlight key industry events and cover news and topical environmental subjects of…
Figures just released by Defra show that while the fly-tipping of commercial waste across England continues to rise overall the fly-tipping of end of life tyres has halved over the past 10 years to just over 1% of total reported…
The communique from today’s COAG meeting includes a commitment to a timetable to ban the export of various products including used tyres. This initiative is welcomed by the Australian Tyre Recyclers Association (ATRA) “There are two distinct streams of used…
A record number of delegates at the Tyre Recovery Association’s annual Recycling Forum Day welcomed two new landmark industry initiatives and were briefed on the advantages of the existing tyre recovery programme compared with Extended Producer Responsibility equivalents. The Forum…