Tyre retailers & Waste Tyre disposal
Tyre waste that you collect from your customers is your responsibility. You must ensure that you only use licensed collectors to remove your waste. Your responsibility does not end there. Tyre retailers are responsible for the waste tyres there business generates, until they are taken out of the waste stream. Your duty of care for your businesses waste is from cradle to grave. This means that you must be sure that the waste collector you use is recycling your waste tyres, or taking them to a tyre recycler who will remove the tyres from the waste stream.
Benefits of a Tyre Collection and Disposal System
Waste tyres can be put to many beneficial uses when they reach end of life. Crumb obtained from recycled tyres has many uses, such as in playgrounds, as equine bedding or on football pitches. Furthermore the steel recovered from recycled tyres is a valuable resource. Tyres can also be retreaded – a retreaded truck tyre requires only 33% of the oil utilised in manufacturing a new one, a saving of up to 56 litres each time a truck tyre is retreaded. By implementing a well organized and traceable system for the collection and disposal of tyres, then this valuable resource is put to best use. It also prevents the environmental pollution associated with the incorrect disposal of waste tyres.