Australian Tyre Recyclers Association (ATRA)

Representing the interests of Australia’s preeminent tyre recycling businesses, including promoting the benefits of tyre recovery and circular economy outcomes.

ATRA’S POLICY PRIORITIES

• Enforcement of regulations to benefit the environment and the legal and sustainable used tyre and conveyor collection and recycling industry.
  • Includes, compliance and enforcement of state regulations and federal export controls
• Continued improvement in the recovery rates of all classifications of used tyres.
• Regulatory settings and policy processes that support the existing legal and sustainable recycling sector and that are appropriate to Australia’s market settings.
• Highest order outcomes for end-of-life rubber products.

ATRA MEMBER OPERATIONS

ATRA members represent the majority of the legal and sustainable used tyre recycling activity in Australia and service the entire Australian market. ATRA members recycle more than 20 Million used tyres per annum or around 400,000 tyres per week; and process these for:

• Tyre Derived Fuels (TDF) replacing coal in industrial facilities in Japan and South Korea (delivering greenhouse gas reductions)
• Rubber crumb for sports fields and other soft fall surfacing
• Crumb in asphalt, and;
• The emerging markets of recovered materials for new tyre production

More information about used tyre products is available in the Sustainability section of this website.