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You are here: Home1 / News2 / Legislation3 / TRA ‘alarmed’ at proposed Europe-wide ban on rubber infill

TRA ‘alarmed’ at proposed Europe-wide ban on rubber infill

Date: 26th June 2020 Author: Andrew Bogie Comments: 0
Tyres are increasingly the focus of discussion on particulate matter and microplastics

Tyre Recovery Association members have called a new proposal to ban the use of tyre-derived rubber infill in sports surfaces as “incomprehensible and counter-intuitive”. The European Chemical Agency (ECHA) wants to ban the reuse of materials containing ‘intentionally added’ microplastics such as tyres from 2028. The TRA estimates that in the course of their service lives, car tyres alone shed some half a million tonnes of micronized rubber annually across the continent of Europe.

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