Draft regulation on extended producer responsibility for waste tyres
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change presented a notification for regulations for the extended producer responsibility (EPR) for waste tyres that will be effective from the new fiscal year. According to the data, India scraps around 275,000 tyres each year but does not have a complete plan. About 3 million waste tyres are imported for recycling. The waste tyres are recycled as rubber, crumb rubber, crumb rubber modified bitumen (CRMB), recovered carbon black, and pyrolysis oil or char. A petitioner in the NGT case had said that the pyrolysis industry in India delivers cheap quality products that need to be banned to stop climate damage, and it also produces highly cancer-causing pollutants which are harmful to the respiratory system.
