EPR Targets and End-Product Certificate Weightages
The Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligation targets for tyre producers ramp up year by year to full coverage — and the certificate weightage multipliers show which end products generate the most EPR revenue per tonne processed.
| Type | Detail | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Producer obligation | FY 2022-23 | 35 percent of FY 2020-21 producer volume |
| Producer obligation | FY 2023-24 | 70 percent of FY 2021-22 producer volume |
| Producer obligation | FY 2024-25 | 100 percent of FY 2022-23 producer volume |
| Producer obligation | FY 2025-26 onwards | 100 percent of Y-minus-2 producer volume |
| Certificate weightage | Reclaimed Rubber | 1.30 |
| Certificate weightage | Recovered Carbon Black | 1.25 |
| Certificate weightage | Crumb Rubber Modified Bitumen (CRMB) | 1.10 |
| Certificate weightage | Crumb Rubber | 1.00 |
| Certificate weightage | Tyre Pyrolysis Oil — Continuous | 0.80 |
| Certificate weightage | Tyre Pyrolysis Oil — Batch | 0.50 |
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How to read this table
- Blue rows = producer obligation targets by financial year; green rows = certificate weightages by end product
- Weightage multiplies the tonnage processed to get certificate units — a 1.30 weightage on 100 tonnes processed = 130 certificate units
- Higher weightage = more EPR revenue per tonne of waste tyre input; lower weightage = less revenue per tonne
- Producer obligation is calculated on Y-minus-2 reference volumes from FY 2025-26 onwards
About this table
India's tyre Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework, under CPCB rules, requires producers to ensure a growing share of the waste tyres they have put on the market is channelled through registered recyclers. The obligation is measured as a percentage of the producer's own volume in a reference year — so a company that sold 10,000 tonnes of tyres in FY 2020-21 was required to ensure 3,500 tonnes of waste tyre recycling was completed in FY 2022-23, rising to 7,000 tonnes in FY 2023-24, and 10,000 tonnes in FY 2024-25 and beyond.
From FY 2025-26 onwards, the obligation equals 100% of the producer's volume from two years prior — a permanent full-coverage rule that effectively means every tonne a producer sells today creates an EPR obligation two years later. Producers who cannot meet this target must purchase EPR certificates from registered recyclers, creating a direct revenue stream for compliant recyclers.
The certificate weightage is the multiplier applied to the weight of waste tyre processed to determine how many EPR certificates that output generates. Reclaimed rubber earns the highest weightage at 1.30 — meaning 1 tonne of waste tyre input generates 1.30 certificate units. Recovered Carbon Black (rCB) earns 1.25, reflecting its higher technical value. At the bottom is batch-process Tyre Pyrolysis Oil (TPO) at 0.50 — half the certificates of crumb rubber per tonne. For a recycler, moving from batch TPO to continuous TPO (0.80) or from crumb rubber to reclaimed rubber (1.30) materially changes EPR revenue without changing the amount of feedstock processed.
This weightage structure is deliberate policy: it steers the sector toward higher-value outputs and away from simple thermal disposal. Founders choosing an end product should treat the weightage multiplier as a key financial variable alongside the product's sale price and the EPR credit market price.
Key insights
- From FY 2025-26, the EPR obligation permanently equals 100% of a producer's volume from two years prior — creating a structural, permanent demand for recycler services
- Reclaimed rubber earns the highest certificate weightage at 1.30 — 2.6 times more certificates per tonne than batch tyre pyrolysis oil (0.50)
- Switching from batch TPO (0.50) to continuous TPO (0.80) increases certificate generation by 60% on the same feedstock input
- Recovered Carbon Black at 1.25 weightage reflects its material value as a carbon black substitute — nearly equal to reclaimed rubber
- The CRMB weightage (1.10) rewards the crumb-to-road-bitumen upgrade path even without moving to devulcanization
Methodology & sources
Producer obligation percentages and certificate weightages are from CPCB notifications under the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules as applied to end-of-life tyres. Weightage values and target ramp-up are as notified; confirm current notification version at CPCB website before financial modelling. EPR credit market prices are not included here — they are set by market transactions between producers and recyclers.
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