UK’s end of life tyre recovery sector lays out progress plans for new dawn ‘After India’

The Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) held its annual briefing day at the Ardencote Hotel near Warwick on 16 September 2025. Entitled ‘After India’, the programme of speakers, presenting to a full and engaged room of delegates from across the tyre and circular economy sectors, was united by a common theme of change in the wake of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) policy paper proposing an end to the much maligned T8 waste management exemption in England and Wales, and the Environment Agency’s (EA) subsequent, substantial internal review on waste tyres. As TRA secretary general Peter Taylor OBE said in his welcome letter to delegates, national media interest won through the association and its partners’ efforts has pushed the fate of the UK’s end of life tyres (ELTs) into the collective conscience for regulators to act on persistent calls for action. Why ‘After India’? One result of regulatory change will be renewed focus on “the issue of excessive and often dubious exports to India”, Taylor says. As well as preventing environmental damage in India, keeping more of the UK’s ELTs in the country means more opportunities for a developing circular economy.

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