Repair waste – no problem with buyers

Does not bother to hide

After the cold season, car service craftsmen recommend to drivers to replace engine oil, fuel, oil and air filters, and sometimes requires a new battery, shock absorber or brake pads.

Often, old tires have to be replaced with new tires, but far from everyone, they make sure they are neatly disposed of.

Vilius Aleliūnas, Executive Director of the Orienteering Federation of Lithuania, who knows the Lithuanian forests, said the number of tires thrown in the forests is worrying. Orienteering people who are all over Lithuania during the competition and training notes that the situation has been slightly improved in the last decade, but still poor.

« A lot of tires and construction debris in the woods. It hurts the heart when you run and see such images.

Part of the old tires in the forest are rid of residents, and the rest is thrown by illegal or unfair garage. They also find the mountains with orienteers.

« Mostly we find a few tires thrown, but about one in five cases are large piles. Then we guess that the masters of an illegal garage are brought. There are about 20 to 30 different types of tires.

Pollutants: about 2-3 thousand. Tires find themselves in nature every year. / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis

« Manages » without contracts

About 30 thousand people are collected and recycled every year in Lithuania. t used tires. The data of the Vilnius County Waste Management Center show that about 2-3 thousand more. They find themselves in nature or in illegal landfills.

Marina Curko-Notkuvienė, the head of the waste management and processing company Ekobazė, confirmed that although the situation is gradually improving, the problem is still extremely sensitive.

« We were considering why we are not moving as fast as we would like in this area. After all, old tires can be left at a garage seller who has sold new tires, can be handed over to municipal large -scale collection sites or directly to the waste manager. Curko-Notkuvienė.

People do not even bother to hide the garbage, but they simply throw away in comfortable places.

Under current laws, tire manufacturers and importers are responsible for tire management, the seller must notify the buyer that the cost of the tire is already included in its arrangement costs. Thus, the buyer can bring as many worn tires as they bought to the point of sale.

Per day – 6 t

Melga chain Melga organizes the campaign of old tires from forests every year. Last year, 6 tire waste was collected around Vilnius and Kaunas in one day in the woods.

Melgos companies marketing and e. Trade Manager Kotryna Sabauskienė explained why some garages avoid receiving tires from customers or getting rid of them in the most brutal way – throwing in the woods or outdoors.

“In order to do so, both sellers and garages must declare their activities for environmental protection, register for a united information system (GPAIS).

Finally, the service must have a contract with the permit to manage the company with that waste. Of course, waste management costs everyone, ”revealed K. Sabauskienė.

Wisdom: Used oil to heat the premises or impregnate fences and gazebos. / Photo by Vytautas Liaudanskis

Gap – Online

According to M. Curko-Notkuvienė, the head of Ekobazė, the other reason why tire assembly to the recycling sites is limp-buying online.

« According to the applicable order, if a person buys tires online, he or she has the right to leave his worn tire set at the seller’s place. However, in reality, that place may not be indicated or indicated to the buyer in an awkward location.

According to the interlocutor, 2024 As many as 19 thousand. t tires, ie 25 percent. More compared to previous years. Old tires are 100 % on the assembly places. recycled and resurrected to a new life.

« We recycle the collected tires, constantly improve the processing process, and produce rugs for sports and playgrounds, production facilities, sound insulation panels, curbs for car parks, » said M. Curko-Notkuvienė.

According to her, for a long time, the products looking for roads with buyers in Lithuania received significantly more customers due to quality and sustainability – sales grew by 113 percent last year and from 2020. The scope of tire -made production and sales in Lithuania increased ten times.

Processes almost everything

Asta Pakštaitė-Marcinkienė, Director of the Manufacturers and Importers Association (GIA), emphasized that tires can not only be processed but also used for energy, thus saving natural and production resources.

In her words, the responsibility of the recovery or recycling procedure is not only mandatory for tires. So, when you replace them with new car parts, there is no place in a mixed municipal waste container or landfill. All waste generated during the repair must remain at the garage and travel to the lawful waste managers.

All cars, including electric cars, are recycled. This regains valuable metals: lithium, cobalt, lead and other materials. The batteries are toxic due to corrosion materials and heavy metals in them, which can contaminate the soil and water when entering the environment.

Filter waste contains metal, oil, plastic and filtered materials. Metal can be recycled many times.

Used oil can also be recycled: it produces basic oil needed to make lubricant or hydraulic oil. Waste of oil and car filter waste is distinguished by heavy metals: lead, cadmium, arsenic and other harmful substances. Just 1 liter of old car oils can contaminate $ 1 million. l of water.

Last year, 6 tire waste was collected around Vilnius and Kaunas in one day in the woods.

There is no shortage of wisdom

By the way, there is no shortage of wisdom not only for the lawful recycling oil, but also for those engaged in it illegally. Some burn it in the winter by heating the premises. When the weather warms, the old oil is impregnated with fences, gazebos and other wood structures.

However, it should be borne in mind that illegal oil management and incineration can not only result in a fine, but also a major risk to the environment and human health.

Drivers should be responsible not only when repairing the car, but also when deciding to change the old or no longer driven to the newer. Because cars are not always followed by rules governing their activities. In the event of saving natural resources and other resources, the vehicle (ENTP) is no longer in operation, the requirements of the Regulation must be recycled.

Under the EU Directive, almost all ENTP waste must be reused or recycled, only 5 %. This waste can be removed.

Waste managers operating under the highest performance standards can reuse parts of car body, engines and parts thereof, lights, mirrors, rims, gearboxes, radiators, cabin and other parts. What fails to reuse can be recycled.

All the most important information about processing can be found on the site www.autasvarimas.lt; There is a list of legally acting (declaring environmental activities) garage. The site can be applied for a non -driving car and find out how properly managed car waste can contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution.

Benefits: A neatly added tire is 100 percent. used in other products. / E. Photo by Kinich

Many do not cost

In the interactive map « I manage Lithuania », residents can take a picture and report waste discarded in nature. There are a number of reports of illegal landfills, with tens to several hundred tons of tires.

Used tires, oil, filters, coolants, batteries and other vehicle maintenance and repair waste from residents are collected free of charge at large waste collection sites. Their addresses, working hours and other information can be found on municipal sites or www.atliekos.lt;

Unlimited quantities of car waste can be given to waste managers, but this service may be paid. Car services must arrange / transfer all non -hazardous and hazardous waste resulting from the maintenance and repair operating operation of the vehicle during the requirements.

It is strictly prohibited to return them to the owner or user of the vehicle. This item does not apply to reusable use of the right parts.

Penalties – from 30 euros

Bulky vehicles: tractors, harvesters, trucks, buses and so on. – Tires must also be managed in accordance with environmental requirements.

Farmers can contact the importer or seller from whom they bought the tires. The seller must remove and arrange them for free. The tires cannot be returned to the customer and must be transferred to the waste managers.

Truck and bus tires are also assembled. Companies that produce bulky tire waste must manage it in accordance with the requirements of legal acts.

There are cases where a resident who bought a plot of land finds bulky vehicle tire waste. It is then necessary to contact the municipality for the possibility to deliver the waste by bypass or contact the waste managers directly. Some bulky waste collection sites accept large tires for charge.

Fines for the waste thrown into the environment are provided for in Article 247 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. The amount of the fine can range from 30 euros to several thousand, depending on the amount of waste and whether the waste is hazardous or not. Can be counted and the environmental damage. In cases where the tires are burned, a fine is imposed and the environmental damage is calculated.