The European Tyre Recycling Association is the only European organisation devoted exclusively to tyre and rubber recycling. Founded on 23 September 1994 with 19 members in 5 countries. Today, ETRA has ±250 members in 47 countries including the 25 EU Member States. ETRA membership reflects both the public and private sectors involved in the environmentally safe disposition of post-consumer tyres. Policy and decision makers as well as those charged with organising and connecting the links in the chain are represented. With a focus on both material and energy recovery, ETRA members include collectors, retreaders, manufacturers of recycling equipment, research bodies, developers, users of new technologies as well as users of the materials in an expanding number of products and applications.