Used tyres have traditionally been dumped into the ground in landfill sites and left for future generations to worry about.

THE LAW HAS CHANGED! New legislation means that whole tyres have been banned from landfill from July 2003 and shredded tyres from July 2006. The new rules come as part of the EU's Landfill Directive, which will see a ban on dumping used tyres across the whole of the union.

Did you know...
Each year 40,000,000 tyres are removed from vehicles in the UK. If all these tyres were placed end-to-end, the line could stretch from London to Sydney, Australia and then back again (approximately 21,000 miles) and there would still be tyres left over!