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Norman Baker
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many tyres were (a) purchased, (b) reused and (c) disposed of by (i) landfill, (ii) incineration, (iii) illegal fly tipping and (iv) other means in each year since 1992. [99271]
Mr. Meacher
The Used Tyre Working Group, which comprises representatives from the tyre industry and officials from the Department of Trade and Industry and the Environment Agency, has compiled statistics on
Replacement tyre sales | Tyres on new vehicles | Total | ||||
Units (m) | Tonnes (000s) | Units (m) | Tonnes (000s) | Units (m) | Tonnes (000s) | |
1995 | 27.9 | 382 | 11.2 | 94 | 39.1 | 476 |
1996 | 27.2 | 359 | 11.6 | 96 | 38.8 | 456 |
1997 | 26.6 | 369 | 12.4 | 100 | 39 | 468 |
1998 | 27.8 | 370 | 12.9 | 106 | 40.7 | 476 |
19991 | 26.3 | 275 | 12.7 | 103 | 38.9 | 378 |
2000 | 25 | 260 | 12.8 | 105 | 37.8 | 365 |
2001 | 26.9 | 284 | 14.1 | 114 | 41.0 | 398 |
1From 1999 onwards, the method of calculating replacement tyre sales tonnage from unit information changed to better reflect the spread of commercial vehicle tyre sizes and weights. |
Tonnes (000s)1 | |||||||
1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | |
Reused2 | 72 | 87 | 93 | 110 | 92 | 99 | 94 |
Retreaded | 124 | 116 | 110 | 86 | 66 | 56 | 49 |
Recycled | 41 | 41 | 34 | 49 | 83 | 75 | 107 |
Energy recovery3 | 80 | 102 | 117 | 84 | 70 | 54 | 40 |
Total recovery | 317 | 346 | 354 | 328 | 311 | 283 | 290 |
Other (inc. landfill)4 | 166 | 138 | 136 | 139 | 123 | 167 | 191 |
Used tyre arisings5 | 483 | 484 | 490 | 468 | 427 | 450 | 481 |
1Units not separately identified, since recovery generally reported in tonnage terms. | |||||||
2Category includes part-worn tyres, tyres used for silage clamps and landfill engineering purposes and exports of used tyres. | |||||||
3Includes the former Elm Energy/Sita Tyre Recycling tyres to energy plant which closed in 2000. | |||||||
4The figure for landfill, as reported in the table, is effectively the balance between used tyre arisings and used tyre recovery. As well as covering the disposal of both whole and shredded tyres to landfill, it also includes those tyres which are disposed of to landfill as automotive shredder residue. | |||||||
5From 1999, total used tyre arisings have been based on the number of replacement tyre sales, numbers of vehicles scrapped and imports of used tyres as well as a proportion of tyres re-entering the waste stream after temporary re-use. |
Municipal waste 2000–01 | ||||
Government Region | Municipal waste (000 tonnes) | Landfill disposal (percentage) | Incineration (percentage) | Other methods (percentage) |
East Midlands | 2,290 | 78 | 7 | 15 |
East of England | 2,918 | 82 | 2 | 16 |
London | 4,463 | 71 | 21 | 8 |
North East | 1,452 | 75 | 19 | 6 |
North West | 4,155 | 90 | 1 | 9 |
South East | 4,344 | 81 | 0 | 19 |
South West | 2,678 | 82 | 0 | 18 |
Wales | 1,642 | 93 | 0 | 7 |
used tyres since 1995. The statistics, which are based on information supplied to the UTWG on a voluntary basis, are indicative in nature since the quality of the source data varies.