Customs Union to implement law mandating recycling of used lubricating oil

The Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia will implement a technical law by March 2014 that could usher in a new era for the nascent used oil recycling industry in these three countries.
According to Rodion Cherednichenko, chairman of the Association for Waste Recycling, based in Moscow, the regulation will require the treatment or recycling of used lubricating oils.
This technical development will “define the rules of the game,” he told participants of the inaugural CIS Fuels & Lubricants conference being held in Moscow this week. The event is organized by London-based Global Business Club.
Cherednichenko told F&L Asia that the groundwork for the regulation started back in 2008.
“The government has supported our idea to make a list of raw materials subject to re-refining/recycling. This should drastically modify how companies treat used lubricants,” he said. The law will prohibit the burning of waste lubricating oil for fuel purposes.
The Customs Union came into existence on January 1, 2010 between the states of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. The Customs Union was launched as a first step towards forming a broader European Union-type economic alliance of former Soviet states.