Millions of UK Tyres Meant for Recycling Sent to Furnaces in India – BBC News
A BBC investigation has revealed that millions of tyres collected for recycling in the UK are instead being exported to India and incinerated, raising serious concerns about transparency, environmental harm, and regulatory failure.
Millions of tyres being sent from the UK to India for recycling are being “cooked” in makeshift furnaces, causing serious health problems and substantial environmental damage, the BBC has discovered.
The majority of the UK’s exported waste tyres are sold into the Indian black market, and this is well known within the industry, BBC File on 4 Investigates has been told.
Campaigners and many in the industry, including the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA), argue that the government is aware the UK is one of the worst offenders in exporting waste tyres for this purpose.
The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has informed us that it has strict controls in place for exporting waste tyres, including the possibility of unlimited fines and imprisonment.
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