To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will make it his policy to work with other EU member states to remove the green-listed status of waste tyres in order to ensure that their disposal is regulated more responsibly.

It is not necessary to remove the green-listed status of tyres to ensure that their disposal is regulated more responsibly. Tyres are not a hazardous waste and the system of control provided in the waste shipments regulation for green-listed waste should be sufficient. These controls require that the waste may only be exported if it is being sent for recovery rather than for disposal, and that the waste will be managed at its destination in an environmentally sound manner.