The tyre recycling sector has long been exercised by issues around proposed bans on crumb rubber infill. Initially, this was based around European Chemicals Agency Risk Assessment Committee (ECHA RAC) concerns about the PAH content in tyre crumb infill.
However, moves to reduce the PAH content in new tyres resulted in a knock-on reduction in PAH from used tyres and crumb rubber infill. The outcome of that ECHA RAC investigation was that there was no significant risk, but the parameters for PAH content in tyre crumb infill were reduced to the point of being almost negligible.
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