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Printed RFID Sensors Can Help Tyre Recovery Association Process Used Tires

With trial run successfully completed, TRA sees RFID as offering ‘real potential’for tracking and recycling tires.

With 45 million used tires processed every year in the UK alone, keeping track of what is being done with the tires is of great interest to all parties, from consumers to the companies themselves, with uses including sports fields, running tracks, playgrounds, construction and more.    Formed in 2004, the Tyre Recovery Association (TRA), which represents the UK’s tire recovery sector, tracks these tires. Flexible RFID-based sensors may provide the key to improving the processing of these tires. ...

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