Arkansas Statewide Rule
Arkansas Waste Tire Recycling and Disposal Requirements (§ 8-9-403)
Key Facts
- Statute
- Ark. Code Ann. § 8-9-403
- Enforcing agency
- Division of Environmental Quality
- Open tire burning
- Prohibited statewide
- Max penalty
- $10,000 per violation (§ 8-6-204)
- Whole tires in landfill
- Banned unless shredded or split
Summary
Arkansas Code § 8-9-403 bans open burning of tires, forbids maintaining a waste tire site, and requires used or waste tires to go only to a permitted processing facility, collection center, or solid waste disposal site.
(b) A person shall not cause or permit the open burning of tires in the state. (c)(1) A person shall not maintain a waste tire site. (2) It is illegal for any person to dispose of used or waste tires or portions of used or waste tires in the state unless the tires or portions of tires are disposed of for processing or collected for processing at a permitted waste tire processing facility, a waste tire collection center, or a permitted solid waste disposal facility.
Full Breakdown
The Used Tire Recycling and Accountability Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 8-9-401 et seq., makes tire recycling a statewide obligation enforced by the Division of Environmental Quality within the Department of Energy and Environment. Section 8-9-403 prohibits open tire burning and bars anyone from operating an unpermitted waste tire site. Discarded tires must move through the permitted network, processing facilities, collection centers, or licensed solid waste disposal sites, and whole tires cannot be landfilled unless shredded or split into small enough parts. Under § 8-9-105, violations draw the § 8-6-204 penalties of up to $10,000 per violation.
Violations & Penalties
The Division of Environmental Quality enforces through administrative civil penalties reaching $10,000 per violation under § 8-6-204, and each day of a continuing violation counts as a separate offense; open burning and unpermitted tire sites are prohibited.
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