Three companies have become the recipients of grants from the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) as part of their initiative to help businesses increase their capacity to reprocess old tyres. The initiative was open to any business involved in the reprocessing of tyre waste that would otherwise have ended up as landfill.

One of the recipients, Bristol Tyre, is a newcomer to the tyre processing industry and WRAP has provided support by funding a shredding machine and related equipment. A second recipient, McGrath, will use the WRAP funds to purchase tyre shredding and granulating equipment along with a loading shovel and grab machine. The third company, Great Yarmouth’s Aquablast, has developed bespoke machinery to remove steel from tyre rubber via high pressure water blasting. The WRAP funding has enabled Aquablast to create a machine capable of handling earthmover tyres.