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 Tyre Recovery Association welcomes the call by Indian campaigning body Social Action and Environment Group (SAPE) to ban dangerous forms of tyre reprocessing in India. Exports of waste tyres, in particular to India have grown exponentially in recent…
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…
After nearly four years of consultation, the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has published its tyre industry specific Fire Prevention Plan (FPP). Having worked alongside the Environment Agency (EA) to address the need to store a diverse range of materials in…
The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) has announced the successful completion of a digital tyre tracking trial. Conducted with TRA member, Fraser Evans & Sons Ltd, and technology partner PragmatIC, the trial used Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. The tags are fixed…
UK firm Murfitts Industries has created a soccer pitch made from recycled tyres for Spanish soccer champions FC Barcelona. The recycled polymeric infill is called PRO-gran and is being used across four continents since its launch in 2017. The artificial…