Scrap Tyre Recycling: Regulations

Waste Tyre Disposal

If your business produces waste tyres or as an individual you have waste tyres to dispose of, by law you have a duty of care to ensure that their disposal complies with the Waste Duty of Care code of practice. This duty of care extends so "You have a responsibility to take all reasonable steps to ensure that when you transfer waste to another waste holder that the waste is managed correctly throughout its complete journey to disposal or recovery."

Click here to see the code of practice on the Environment Agency website.

Your Choice

As the producer of the waste tyres you now have two choices: use a registered waste carrier or a licensed waste tyre processor to collect them.



Waste Carriers

Any individual or company can register as a waste carrier, broker and dealer: It's quick, simple and low cost, presently £154 for 3 years. A waste carrier does not process waste tyres but consolidates and/or sorts them before delivering them to a licensed waste tyre processor such as ETR. This is all enabled by a waste exemption:

"S2 storing waste in a secure place."

"This exemption allows you to store specific waste at a secure place that is different to where the waste was produced, before the waste is transported to another site to be recovered."

Click here to see the exemption on the Gov UK website.

Waste Carrier Limitations

Waste carriers are limited to the number of tyres that they can store, now the limit is 40 tonnes for 3 months. A key condition of this allowance is the storage is awaiting its recovery elsewhere.

Therefore, as the producer of the waste tyres your responsibility has not ended when they are collected by a waste carrier as this is only an intermediate step before disposal or recovery.



Waste Tyre Processors

If your tyres are collected by Kent Tyre Recycling your responsibility for their correct disposal is discharged. When we collect them they are processed at a fully licensed environment agency Waste facility

Hawkhurst & Wealden Metals Ltd, 

Heartenden Road, 

Hawkhurst, 

Kent, 

TN18 5EY. 

Who operates under Site License No - 11351620 | Waste Carrier License No - CBDU298131

This page should not be considered as legal advice and is offered for guidance only.