Tyre Waste EPR: producer registration and recycling obligations for waste tyres.

Producers of tyres: manufacturers who place tyres on the domestic market, importers of new tyres, importers of tyres fitted to or supplied with imported vehicles, and importers of waste tyres. A vehicle importer is therefore typically obligated for the tyres that come with the vehicles, which is a common gap at applicability screening.

It sits under the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules as amended, rather than under a stand-alone tyre rule. That matters practically because waste tyres are also regulated as other waste for import and handling purposes, so the EPR obligation and the handling and import provisions apply together.

Through EPR certificates generated on the CPCB portal by registered tyre recyclers against waste tyres they have actually processed, mapped against the producer's obligation on the portal. Recycling routes recognised in the framework include production of reclaimed and crumb rubber and pyrolysis carried out within the conditions and standards the rules and CPCB guidelines set.

No. Retreading extends a tyre's service life and is a different activity from the recycling that generates EPR certificates. It may reduce the volume of waste tyres reaching end of life, but a producer's obligation is discharged by certificates from registered recyclers, not by retreading activity.

Used oil has its own EPR framework introduced under the same hazardous waste rules, with its own registration and obligations for producers of base oil and importers, discharged through registered used-oil recyclers on the portal. An entity dealing in both must address them separately: they are neighbouring regimes, not one obligation.

Because the population of registered tyre recyclers with verified processing capacity is smaller than in the plastic or e-waste streams. That concentrates supply, so an obligated entity that leaves procurement to the end of the compliance year exposes itself both to price and to availability. Contracting early against verified registered capacity is the sensible position.

Environmental compensation is levied on the shortfall by the pollution control authority, and the shortfall carries forward rather than being extinguished by the payment. Operating without registration where registration is required is a separate contravention with its own consequences.