The system ow waste tyres management was established in 2005.
Waste tyres management is implemented for the purpose of utilising their valuable properties, and to reduce to the lowest possible level the scope of detrimental impacts of waste tyres to human health and the environment.
The method of managing waste tyres is a set of measures comprising separate collection and treatment of waste tyres with the intention of utilising them for material or energy purposes.
In the Republic of Croatia, waste tyres management is organised by the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund pursuant to the provisions of the Waste Management Act (Official gazette 84/21, 142/23 - Decision of USRH) and the Ordinance on the management of special categories of waste in the Fund’s system (Official Gazette 124/23, hereinafter: the Ordinance).
A tyre is any product referred to in Article 10 of the Ordinance that is placed on the market as a stand-alone product or as a component part of another product or set of wheels that can be classified in categories of products referred to in Annex 19 or the Ordinance and a non-exhaustive list of products in Annex 20 of the Ordinance.
The provisions of the Ordinance shall apply to new or used tyres, rubber tracks, which are used in the household, or which a legal or natural person- tradesman or natural persons registered for the performance of a certain activity, uses for the transport or transfer or substances, goods or persons, including the performance of works, and on waste tyres resulting from these products, while they shall not apply to the tyres that are component part of vehicles for which no end-of-life vehicle fee is paid under Article 41 of the Ordinance.
The holders can take waste tyres to the civic amenity site (recycling yard), to the service shop when replacing tyres, or to the collector’s warehouse.
Waste tyres must not be landfilled.