Simon Coveney, the minister for housing, planning and local government, is abolishing a scheme of self-regulation for tyre makers and the motor industry. The move comes after a study found that nearly half of all garages are not recycling tyres correctly. Coveney has told the Dail there is “a serious problem with waste tyres in Ireland”, with widespread illegal dumping and up to half of them “unaccounted for”. A self-policing scheme has failed to resolve the problem. “In discussions prior […]
Minister Kelly Responds To Tyre Industry
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr Alan Kelly, T.D., has today (25 September, 2015) responded to spurious allegations made by the Tyre Industry. Industry has suggested that the introduction of a (PRI) Producer Responsibility Initiative for tyres and waste tyres will result in job losses and increases in prices and has cited this as the rationale for abandoning the talks they were engaged in with the department in relation to the introduction of a PRI in this […]
