Published on April 16, 2019.-
Una de las características de la Ley Marco para la Gestión de Residuos, la Responsabilidad Extendida del Productor y Fomento al Reciclaje (REP Law) es que obliga a los fabricantes e importadores de productos prioritarios a organizar y financiar la gestión de los residuos derivados de sus productos. Estos productos, en una primera etapa, son siete: aceites lubricantes, aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos, envases y embalajes, neumáticos, pilas, baterías y diarios, periódicos y revistas. Seis de ellos estarán sujetos a metas de recolección y valorización.
Until now, the Ministry of the Environment has opened two files leading to elaborate the supreme decrees. One of them is tires. These are considered priority, since Chile consumes around 6.5 million tires per year, which correspond to about 180 thousand tons. Considering wear and tear, the annual generation of tire waste It is estimated that it is around 140 thousand tons, of which only 17% are drive in an environmentally sound manner.
The 27th of March, the Council of Ministers for Sustainability approved the supreme decree that establishes the collection and recovery goals of the tire sector, that will go into effect on January 1, 2021.
The goal of collection at the national level establishes that for that year it must be collected, less, 50% of the tires out of use, but one of the novelties is that no there will only be one national goal, but other specific ones for each one of the country's regions, which together account for 34.7% of all tires to be recovered.
Guillermo González, jefe de la Oficina de Circular Economy del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente, ha explicado que la meta regional proviene de un cálculo que se hizo en base a una estimación de cuántos son los neumáticos que se dan de baja en cada una de las regiones, y que esta cifra correspondería a la mitad de ese monto. “Lo que queremos es dar la señal de que los sistemas de gestión tienen que ir y montar en todas las regiones sistemas de recolección”, ha informado.
The goals regional regulations must be fulfilled starting in 2023, two years the first national goal enters into force. Starting in 2024, this will increase to 80% to reach 90% by 2028.
In the supreme decree, it was also incorporated as a requirement to the management systems to ensure that the sensitive information that is shared in it cannot be known by other producers, as a way of safeguarding free competition.
If you want to learn more about this topic, we invite you to read "REP Law: Final Decree on Tires Sets Regional Collection Goals from 2023".
