Brussels - In 2008, more than 95 percent of end of life tyres entered the recycling and recovery routes. For nearly 15 years, the volumes of end of life tyres benefiting from ecological treatment have followed an unstopped increase of +57 percent in 2008 compared to 1994 and a steady yearly increase of 4 percent. Says ETRMA, the European tyre and rubber manufacturers` association.

Such unprecedented result demonstrates the strategy deployed by the European tyre manufacturers within ETRMA to anticipate the regulatory, environmental and economic challenges imposed to Member States by the EU landfill ban is highly efficient. In 2008, up to 60 percent of end of life tyres arising on the European market were collected and treated under Producer Responsibility obligations.

Used tyres araisings amounted to 3.3 million tonnes in the European Union countries. While energy recovery maintains its level around 35 percent, material recycling is the real market benefiting from the landfill diverting. Between 1994 and 2008, the recycling rate progressed to reach as much as 40 percent. This also means that the recycling applications market ist being sustainably consolidated.

Quelle: European tyre and rubber manufacturers` association (ETRMA)

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