Waste Management and Recycling of Tyres in Europe

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyrightholder. Acknowledgements The number of people who we want to thank is inevitably too large to mention them all. We apologise to those whose names are not listed here although they have contributed to our research project. First of all, we would like to thank all the EPCEM members who worked on the first version of this report. The EPCEM team consisted of Evgenij Glazyrin, Maher Khalil, Alwin Kool, Ingrid Nardelli, and Antoaneta Popova. Moreover, we would like to thank Koen de Kruif, who assisted the project from its onset, providing valuable advice, support and practical assistance. We are also indebted to Mr. Barend ten Bruggencate (Bureau of International Recycling), Mr. Ulrich Hoffmann (UNCTAD), Mr. Ruud Spuijbroek (The Association VACO, association for the tyre and wheel business and industry). Finally, we are grateful to the experts who we have interviewed. A complete list of interviewed people is included in the Appendix.