Russia

The EPR system was established in 2015. The system determines yearly recycling rates to be achieved by tire manufacturers and importers, which can choose to recycle tires themselves, to outsource the activity to recyclers or to pay an eco-tax. They must report their data to the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources Usage.

The annual quotas are now based on sales rather than production and imports.

EcoTyresUnion, founded in March 2017, unites some of the largest tire manufacturers in Russia, both to guarantee the independent compliance of its members to the ELT obligation but also to represent and protect its members’ interests.

• 19.3% of generated ELT are sent for material recovery as crumb rubber or as pyrolysis, though few companies know of pyrolysis and those that use it have trouble with product quality. The remaining 0.7% goes towards energy recovery in cement kilns. In total, 20% of ELT are recovered.

• No available information

• Accelerated pyrolysis method (acceleration from 8-12 hours to 1 hour processing time).
• Material: carbon sorbents from scrap tire (2015), tire reclaimation via depolymerization with nitrous oxide.

• The main tire manufacturers in Russia joined the EcoTyresUnion, as a pledge for the sustainable management of ELT.
• The targets defined by the EPR system have been reached.

• Energy recovery is not considered by the authorities as eligible to meet the ELT management system targets, limiting the potential for ELT energy recovery methods.
• The funds gathered by the eco-tax are not used to further develop the ELT management system.
• There is understood to be potential risk of fraud in the ELT recycling declarations.