Repak has established a new tyre-compliance scheme, following a decision by the Minister for the Environment, Alan Kelly, to replace the existing TRACS. As reported by Michael Moroney, farmers are now facing a mandatory tyre recycling fee of up to €20 per tractor tyre. Repak, a not-for-profit packaging recycling scheme, established Repak End of Life Tyres (ELT) to operate the new waste tyre compliance scheme. ELT scheme facts: Repak ELT will operate new ELT Producer Responsibility Initiative (PRI). Repak ELT […]
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 […]
