All about EPR Regime for Waste Tyres | Extended Producer Responsibility | Enterclimate

For managing #waste tyres in the country, the government introduced the #hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules 2016. After many subsequent amendments, the MoEF&CC notified the Hazardous and Other Wastes

AmendmentRules,2022, in July 2022, which made the Extended Producer Responsibility or#epr a must for producers. The amendment also made registration on the CPCB’s centralised EPR portal mandatory for producers, recyclers and retreaders. The 2022 amendment made provision for the utilisation and management of waste tyres through Extended Producer's Responsibility or EPR in waste tyre management. The CPCB portal for waste tyre management has been developed to act as a centralised online portal for the registration of the entities, submission of quarterly returns and trading of EPR certificates. All the entities covered under the 2022 amendment,i.e.

• producers,
• recyclers and
• retreaders

must register themselves to continue their operations in the country. The present EPR portal is limited to online submission of information related to quantities of tyres introduced into the market by producers and the generation of their EPR obligation. The trading guidelines will soon be made available on the portal.

Let’swe will understand the Obligations of the Producer under the Rules to determine their EPR responsibilities.

First, let's see who a producer is. As defined in paragraph 1(e) of the 2022 Rules, EPR will apply to producers, i.e. manufacturers, importers and brand Owners who

• Manufactures and sells new tyres domestically; or
• Sells Tyres domestically under its brand name after procuring new tyres manufactured by other manufacturers or suppliers
• Sells imported new Tyres
• Imports vehicles fitted with new Tyres
• Automobile manufacturers who import new tyres for use in new vehicles sold domestically, and lastly
• Imports Waste Tyres

Importing for reusing waste tyres in the form of rubber or carbon black is permitted. However, importing waste tyres to produce Pyrolysis oil or char is prohibited. Here we must also understand what constitutes recycling. As defined in paragraph 1(f), of the 2022 Rules, ‘‘recycling’’ is converting the waste tyre into end products in an environmentally sound manner and possessing facilities as elaborated in the SOP as specified by the CPCB.

The recycler has to be involved in the processing of waste tyres to (Recycling Activities Permitted
• Reclaim the rubber and crumb rubber
• Crumb rubber-modified bitumen (CRMB)
• Recover carbon black or
• Produce pyrolysis oil or char from waste tyres

Another business that was identified in the rules was retreading. Retreading, which means replacing a tyre's worn tread with a new tread, has been allowed, but the retreaders will first have to get registered on the CPCB portal to issue retreading certificates. On production of the certificates, the EPR obligation for the retreaders was deferred by one year (till 2023), provided that the obligation is extinguished after end-of-life disposal through a registered recycler.

Now let’s understand the EPR Targets made mandatory for the above entities
Producers are responsible for recycling waste tyres equivalent to the weight of new tyres that they had manufactured or imported in the previous year.
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