The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on January 30, 2024, issued Direction under Section 5 of the Environment (P) Act, 1986 regarding the registration of Producers/Manufacturers of Tyres, Waste Tyre Recyclers and Retreaders on the CPCB Waste Tyre EPR Portal for Management of Waste Tyres and verification of capacities allocated to the recyclers.
The following directions are hereby issued:
• To provide the updated list of entities engaged in the generation, recycling & retreading of Waste Tyres (Producers, Importers, Recyclers and Retreaders) and ensure their onboarding on the Waste Tyre EPR Portal of CPCB;
• To issue notices to all such entities who are operating without registration, followed by closure of such entities;
• To immediately physically verify the facilities of Recyclers and Retreaders in the State/UT in terms of various details such as their GPS location, GPS tagged photos/videos, waste category as raw material (waste tyre), installed plant & machinery and their actual production capacity, capability, etc. as submitted on Waste Tyre EPR Portal;
• To take action against such Recyclers and Retreaders who have uploaded their details falsely or not correctly on the EPR Portal as per verification as at point (c) above and to recommend CPCB immediately for correcting details on the EPR Portal to ensure that no false EPR Certificate is being generated in the State/UT. Further, necessary changes be also done in the CTO accordingly and be informed to CPCB;
• To carry out drives for identifying informal/illegal recyclers/retreaders, including clusters/areas where such illegal recyclers/retreaders are operating and to close such informal recycling/retreading units immediately.
• To facilitate the transformation of such informal recyclers/retreaders into formal recyclers/retreaders and consent mechanism by way of providing necessary technical support, hand holding, integrating with schemes in the SPCB/PCC, etc.
• To also issue advertisements in the newspaper vernacular language for the immediate closing of illegal recycling/retreading operations by the operators who do not have consent to operate, including for the common public to inform the same, if any, to SPCB/PCC.
[File No.: CP-22/2/2024-WM-III-HO-CPCB-HO 9129-64]
