In recognition of an outstanding contribution by an individual over the course of their career to the tyre recycling sector.
Valerie Shulman began to study tyre recycling in the EU in 1989 and developed the Tyre Recycling Project in 1992 which, after initial EU funding, became the nucleus of ETRA. A contributor to the preparation and presentation of the 1999 Basel Convention Guidelines on used tyres, she has served as Secretary General of ETRA for twenty-six years.