Southern Cone
Argentina discards 130,000 to 135,000 tonnes of tires a year, about 40% in the Buenos Aires metro area, and most end up in landfills or dumps without treatment. It generates about 45,000 t/day of municipal waste (1.15 kg/person/day) and nearly 35% goes to open dumps, which account for more than 17% of national methane emissions.
Regulatory framework
Sets national minimum standards for the integrated management of household waste; provinces and municipalities implement it with their own rules.
View regulation · argentina.gob.arNational strategy with a hierarchy (prevention, reuse, recycling, energy recovery, disposal) and producer responsibility across the life cycle; bans open burning and landfilling of whole tires, and allows use as alternative fuel with flue-gas treatment.
View regulation · faolex.fao.orgSeveral bills in Congress propose national tire EPR (for example 5 ELTs recovered per 10 replacement tires in year 2, up to 1:1 in year 7). An earlier bill passed the Senate in August 2021 but never became law.
View regulation · www4.hcdn.gob.arBans open-air storage and burning, burial and landfilling of tires; makes producers responsible for the full life cycle and creates a provincial fund for ELT valorization.
View regulation · mendoza.gov.arPublished 21 Oct 2015; expands the renewable energy promotion regime for power generation and creates the FODER trust fund.
View regulation · argentina.gob.arApplies a CO2 tax to gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, petroleum coke and coal, among others; pure biodiesel and bioethanol are exempt. The annex lists 'pyrolysis gasoline', a point to check if pyrolysis oil is sold as fuel.
View regulation · argentina.gob.arPublished 20 Dec 2019; sets minimum standards for climate change adaptation and mitigation policy.
View regulation · argentina.gob.arContext
MSW generated (World Bank)
What a Waste 2.0 (2018) · datacatalog.worldbank.org
Incentives
Law 27.191 provides the national framework for promoting renewable power, including biomass. The CO2 tax on fossil fuels (fuel oil, coke, coal) makes renewable substitutes more competitive, though pyrolysis oil could be caught by it. Current Law 27.191 tax benefits for new projects and provincial schemes were not verified.
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Sources consulted
Reference information compiled from public sources as of October 2026. It is not legal advice; confirm each regulation is current before making decisions.
Verification level: Medium
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