Retail Fly-Tipping Costs £2 million a Year
Under the banner of “Educating the consumer,” the second annual Tyre Recovery Association (TRA) annual forum, which took place at the end of January covered topics including “Balancing Capacity with Demand,” “Recycling Comes at a Cost,” and “The production and use of tyre derived materials,” but once again the most headline-grabbing news was on the subject of retail fly-tipping.
Large tyre retail operations are paying for the disposal of 10-15 per cent more tyres than they sell, according to the latest information. Group Tyre commercial operations director, Karl Naylor, detailed some of the findings of the Tyre Industry Federation (TIF) fly-tipping panel he has recently been working with. 12 months after Kwik-Fit spoke of how tyres dumped on its premises cost £250,000 it appears that the problems costs the wider retail industry approximately £2 million each year. And what's more, the problem appears to be a growing concern.