For many of you in the past few years, the cost of collecting and disposing of waste tyres has dropped noticeably but this is now about to change. During this time, over half of Britain’s old tyres found their way to South Asia and to India as cheap and highly-polluting fuel in particular where they were then all too often disposed of in illegal facilities but this is about to change.
Our regulators are now acting to more stringently monitor what leaves our shores, put an end to these abuses and once again open the way to responsible tyre recycling.
Good practice starts with you, legally, all of us in the recovery chain, from road user to re-cycler has an absolute “Duty of Care” to be sure they are dealing with properly permitted contractors, especially now in this period of market correction. The cost of the responsible recycling of any waste is never without appropriate cost and our old tyres are no exception.
For these reasons, some in our marketplace may experience a rise in what you pay for the collection of your old tyres over the coming weeks. We understand cost increases are never welcome. However, in this case they are a natural consequence of our government and regulators taking appropriate action to help ensure more tyres are reprocessed in ways that are responsible and legally compliant.