India

In 2016, the Government of India issued draft Waste Tyres Management Rules. If met with a positive response, the new rules would create a framework for managing ELT practices in a more organized, rigorous, effective and environmentally friendly manner.

Draft Waste Tyres management rules were circulated among relevant actors.

The main stakeholder is the Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association (ATMA), which works alongside the government on potential regulations.

Data from 2015 shows that material recovery makes up the large part of ELT recovery (76% of generated ELT), mainly sent towards crumb rubber production.

• Significant attention given to the negative environmental and health externalities caused by the pyrolysis industry, and governmental action to limit the technology’s negative impacts.
• Study launched July 2018 by the State of Haryana’s Pollution Control Board, on the impacts of pyrolysis on human health and the environment. Suspension of the installation of new pyrolysis plants in the state until the results of the study are finalized, expected 2019.

• ELT in steel production.
• Rubber-modified concrete.

Lack of organized framework around ELT management, limited quantitative information and support from the government, and prevalence of actors involved in the informal ELT recovery sector.