National Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (Act No. 59 of 2008)RegulationsWaste Tyre Regulations, 2017Part 3 : Duties of Tyre Dealers6. Duties of tyre dealers |
| (1) | A tyre dealer must classify any used tyre in his or her possession or control as either a part worn tyre or a retreadable casing and any used tyre not falling into either of these categories must be classified as a waste tyre. |
| (2) | A tyre dealer must mutilate or cause all waste tyres with a load index of 121 or less in his or her possession or control, or must cause such waste tyres to be mutilated, which includes, but is not limited to— |
| (a) | the cutting of the bead of a waste tyre in two places; |
| (b) | punching a hole with a minimum diameter of 50mm in the sidewall; or |
| (c) | making a cut of at least 100mm in the sidewall. |
| (3) | A tyre dealer must manage all waste tyres in his or her possession or control, or cause such waste tyres to be managed in accordance with a waste tyre management plan, or by direction of the Bureau contemplated in regulation 12(1)(b). |