The UK's first new end-of-waste framework for tyre pyrolysis oil, published by the Environment Agency on 30 June 2026, defines the refinery-feedstock route for TPO to cease being waste. Download Klean Industries' free analysis of what it means for producers, traders and importers.

Tyre Pyrolysis Oil Resource Framework

On 30 June 2026, the Environment Agency published the UK’s first dedicated resource framework for tyre pyrolysis oil — the first new end-of-waste framework introduced in the UK since the original Quality Protocols were developed between 2004 and 2015. For the first time, producers, refiners, traders and investors have a specific, publicly available route for demonstrating when tyre pyrolysis oil produced from waste tyres can cease to be classified as waste and move outside waste-management controls.

The framework is a defined refinery-feedstock pathway, not a general product approval. TPO can reach end-of-waste status where it is produced exclusively from approved tyre-derived waste — end-of-life tyres under waste code 16 01 03, and shredded tyres or tyre crumb under waste code 19 12 04 — then sent only to a permitted refinery for use as feedstock in the manufacture of marketable products.

Specification, Evidence and Traceability

Compliance is not confined to a certificate of analysis. Producers must agree a final specification with the receiving refinery that meets Environment Agency limits for kinematic viscosity, sulphur content, total acid number, total halogens and a range of metals, and must carry out representative analysis before dispatch from the pyrolysis oil plant. The framework also reaches into feedstock provenance, production and supply records, tank inventories and refinery deliveries — rewarding suppliers capable of linking every stage of the supply chain.

Imported TPO Is Not Automatically Recognised

End-of-waste status is territorial. A product classification in the country of dispatch will not automatically be accepted in the UK: the importer must demonstrate that imported TPO satisfies the framework, and where evidence is incomplete, the Environment Agency’s default is to treat the material as waste. TPO held in intermediate storage without an identified end user is also treated as waste, and mixing rules are strict — compliant TPO mixed with waste oil becomes waste in its entirety, while mixing with a non-waste material such as crude oil does not.

The Same Output Stream Klean Already Delivers

The framework codifies exactly what Klean Industries has engineered for more than two decades: tyre pyrolysis oil delivered to a permitted refinery as feedstock, with recovered carbon black alongside. Klean’s UK project has been developed with Defra, Greenergy and the UK RTFO programme, and its Australian project co-processes tyre pyrolysis oil at Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery — the refinery-feedstock pathway the framework now defines.

Get Your Free Copy of the Full Analysis

Klean Industries has published a free analysis of the UK’s Tyre Pyrolysis Oil Resource Framework — covering the route out of waste status, the minimum specification, the importer’s new responsibilities, storage and blending rules, and the UK REACH obligations that follow end-of-waste. The document cites the original Weibold Academy framework analysis and the Environment Agency guidance, and sets out how Klean’s projects already meet the framework’s requirements.

Contact Klean Now for a Free Copy of This Analysis » GO.

Learn More:

• Klean’s UK Sustainable Low-Carbon Fuels Project
• Viva Energy: Co-Processing Tyre Pyrolysis Oil
• Circular Oil Recovery Projects
• Tyre Pyrolysis Projects
• Feasibility Studies
• Turn-Key EPC Delivery

Plan a Framework-Compliant Tyre Pyrolysis Project

The UK’s new resource framework makes tyre pyrolysis oil a more bankable refinery feedstock — but only for producers who can link feedstock records, tested product, refinery permits and offtake certainty end to end.

Klean Industries already operates across this exact pathway, from a UK project developed with Defra, Greenergy and the UK RTFO programme, to refinery co-processing of tyre pyrolysis oil at Viva Energy’s Geelong facility in Australia.

Why Choose Klean Industries’ Tyre Pyrolysis Technology?

✅ Proven commercial-scale tyre pyrolysis with refinery-feedstock output.
✅ Tyre pyrolysis oil produced to refinery-agreed specification.
✅ KleanLoop blockchain traceability across feedstock, production and delivery.
✅ Recovered carbon black and green hydrogen recovered alongside the fuel oil.

Looking to align your tyre pyrolysis project with the UK’s new resource framework?

Contact Klean Industries about tyre pyrolysis oil » GO.