The European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA) has taken a slightly different tack on the imminent microplastics ban, relating the summer’s drought with the need to water grass pitches as an argument in favour of crumb rubber infill.
It highlights the energy crisis created by the war in Ukraine and the implications this has for the cost-effectiveness of many industries, including tyre recycling.
The cost of energy, which had already doubled before the war, has now skyrocketed posing serious concerns about energy availability and affordability and survival of many industries and fami...





