| It is now standard practice for tyre
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| | recovery industry and helps protect
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| retailers to impose a tyre disposal
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| | against the continuing scourge of
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| charge when you change your tyres, which
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| | fly-tipping. In the UK around 40 million
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| tends typically to be about £1.00 a
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| | tyres are taken off car, vans, trucks and
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| tyre. You may wonder why you have to pay
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| | buses every year, a total of 440,000
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| this charge - after all tyre disposal
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| | tonnes. That is a huge amount of scrap to
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| charges have not always been the norm.
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| | dispose of and it has to be paid for
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| The real answer to this question is that
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| | somehow. Although the UK tyre recovery
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| it is a simple case of economics - a case
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| | industry currently has enough capacity to
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| of supply and demand. Going back twenty
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| | cope with scrap tyre arisings, the
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| years the scrap disposal scenario was
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| | balance between overcapacity and
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| totally different to the way it is today.
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| | undercapacity is relatively fine. Of key
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| It used to be the case that car tyre
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| | importance in the tyre disposal market in
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| retreading companies would collect the
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| | the UK is The Landfill Directive, which
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| majority of used tyres as the raw
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| | was adopted by the UK in July 1999. This
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| material for their production. They used
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| | banned the disposal of whole tyres by
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| to pick up the used tyres free of charge
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| | landfill from July 2003 and shredded
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| (or even pay for the privilege). However,
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| | tyres from July 2006. This has changed
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| that was when over 4 million retreaded
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| | the entire scenario of how tyres are
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| car tyres were sold in the UK every year.
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| | disposed of and recycled in the UK and
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| In the meantime the market for British
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| | Europe. There are a number of ways in
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| manufactured retreads has been squeezed
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| | which scrap tyres are recycled in the UK
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| by cheap new tyres from the Far East to
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| | although all of these can be defined as
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| the point where the UK market is no more
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| | either reuse, recycling or recovery.
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| than a tenth of what it was. This means
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| | Retreading is still considered to be one
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| that retreaders no longer pick up the
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| | of the most preferable method of tyre
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| scrap tyres. This is done by professional
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| | recycling as it effectively doubles the
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| tyre disposal companies who need to
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| | life of the new tyre, reducing the
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| charge the retailer for this service.
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| | numbers of new tyres needed and thereby
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| Much of the tyre disposal in the UK is
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| | minimising waste. Retread still make up
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| now carried out by members of the
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| | nearly half of all truck tyres on the
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| Responsible Recyclers Scheme, which is
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| | road but the number of car tyres that are
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| now administered under license by the
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| | retreaded is now relatively small. Other
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| Tyre Recovery Association. Members of the
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| | common uses for scrap tyres include
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| scheme guarantee that the tyres collected
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| | sports and recreational surfaces,
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| are disposed of in an environmentally
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| | landfill engineering, carpet underlay
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| friendly method, whether recycled or used
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| | floor coverings, and road building. Roads
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| as a fuel in cement kilns. As a
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| | manufactured using crumb rubber last
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| guarantee, members of the scheme are
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| | longer, have better traction and reduce
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| subject to a stringent audit process
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| | noise. In the UK scrap tyres are also
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| conducted regularly by independent
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| | widely used as a fuel in cement kilns as
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| environmental audit specialists. The
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| | an alternative to the traditional fuel,
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| Responsible Recyclers Scheme also
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| | coal.
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| promotes best practice in the tyre
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