Weibold Academy: England’s new Resource Framework: Implications for international TPO trade
England’s new „Tyre Pyrolysis Oil Resource Framework“ establishes a defined pathway for determining when TPO produced from waste tires may cease to be classified as waste. Although formally applicable only in England, the framework has significant implications for overseas TPO producers, traders and English importers. Imported TPO will not automatically be recognized as a product merely because it has obtained end-of-waste or equivalent status in the country of dispatch. Instead, the English importer must demonstrate compliance with the framework’s requirements, including eligibility of tire-derived feedstocks, representative pre-dispatch testing, conformity with minimum and refinery-specific specifications, certainty of refinery use, and delivery to an appropriately permitted facility. The framework therefore shifts market access towards transparent, contractually defined and evidence-based supply chains. While it may strengthen confidence in TPO as a refinery feedstock, it also increases the compliance, documentation, and due diligence burden for both exporters and importers.
