Rapid Fire
New Guidelines for Waste Tyre Management
- 07 Sep 2024
- 2 min read
The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has recently approved new Environmental Compensation (EC) guidelines aimed at strengthening waste tyre management in India.
- Key Aspects of the New Guidelines: Manufacturers who do not meet their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) targets will face penalties of up to Rs 8.40 per kg of waste tyres.
- Companies violating the Hazardous and Other Waste (Management and Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2022 will be fined Rs 25,000, with repeat offenders facing fines up to Rs 1 lakh.
- EPR Compliance: Tyre manufacturers and importers must progressively increase their recycling responsibilities. Starting from 35% of their 2020-21 production/imports in 2022-23, increasing to 70% in 2023-24, and reaching 100% by 2024-25.
- New units must comply with 100% responsibility in the third year of joining the programme.
- Waste tyre importers must manage 100% of the tyres they imported in the previous year. Import for producing pyrolysis oil or char is explicitly banned.
- Recycling waste tyres aims to reduce landfill use and convert tyres into valuable resources such as reclaimed rubber, crumb rubber, and recovered carbon black.
- EPR focuses on the environmental responsibility of the producer for the impacts of their product from initial production to the entire lifecycle, including end-of-life management.
