TRA DOSSIER – TRA with the Department for the Environment and the Environment Agency on EA enforcement of waste tyre rules.
Dossier_TRA with the DEFRA EA _ v Media_May 2023 to May 2025
Red Sea warning – time to stop export of UK carbon footprint – TRA calls on UK government to do the right thing, support British operators and end polluting export of end-of-life tyres
Britain must face up to the reality of its actions if it is to live up to His Majesty’s Government rhetoric, says the Tyre Recovery Association. The disruption caused by Houthi attacks on international shipping have lifted the veil many…
Red Sea shipping crisis brings new threat to UK environment – Communities across Britain face environmental assault if UK authorities can’t stop illegal disposal of end-of-life tyres
Britain faces an environmental assault from the illegal disposal of end-of-life tyres as the impact of the Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping come home to roost. With 75% of the UK’s waste tyres heading to the Indian sub-continent via…
India move to mandate end-of-life tyre recycling a welcome move
18th January 2022 The Indian government’s announcement of an action plan for the management of its increasing volumes of waste tyres is welcomed by the UK Tyre Recovery Association as a much-needed response to a growing environmental challenge. Along with…
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 and responsibly with all of its old tyres. Often viewed…
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 by the Environment Agency across England revealed more than one…
Mounting evidence of fly-tipping and abandonment alarms TRA members
This autumn could bring with it a new rash of tyre dumping and site abandonment warns Britain’s Tyre Recovery Association. Several factors are in play at this present time which the public, our regulators and the tyre trade itself should…
TRA alarmed at proposed Europe-wide ban on rubber infill
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…
Fears grow that Covid impact will lead to widespread ‘dead-end’ stockpiling
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…
Association warns Local Authorities of likely spike in illegal tyre disposal
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…