Unlike other PRI schemes (such as WEEE schemes or Repak) the existing PRI schemes fortyres do not fund or subsidise the collection and treatment of tyres or provide for specificrecycling or recovery targets. Instead, these schemes were established largely as tracking /data gathering systems. Estimates of the percentageof waste tyres unaccounted for inIreland range from 24% (PRO data) to 51% (EPA estimate). The corresponding figure for theEU 27 (plus Norway and Switzerland) is just 4% (i.e. 96% of waste tyres are accounted for).Our performance is below the EU average and the current system is clearly not functioningas intended. A number of recommendations are therefore made regarding future producerresponsibility initiative for the management of tyres and waste tyres, including, inter alia, the introduction of a full PRI with producers and importers taking on responsibility for the financing and collection of waste tyres from tyre suppliers. It is also recommended that thecurrent self-compliance option be ended. This document is produced as part of the review of Producer Responsibility Initiative schemes that was conducted for DECLG by RPS during 2013. This document is an extract from the main report generated during the review of Producer Responsibility Initiative schemes that was conducted for DECLG by RPS in 2012 and 2013.