The obligations set out in European Waste Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008 have now been transposed into French law.
To this effect, the recent French AGEC (Anti-waste and Circular Economy) Law n° 2020-105 of 10 February 2020 introduced a new extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme applicable to mineral, synthetic or industrial oils and lubricants, as from 1 January 2022.
In light of this, the French Professional Lubricants Centre (CPL) took the initiative to create a producer responsibility organization alongside companies wishing to take part. This organization’s mission is to take responsibility for collecting and treating waste oils on behalf of producers.
CYCLEVIA was created on 1 October 2021 and obtained six-year government approval on 24 February 2022, thereby becoming the industry’s producer responsibility organization.
A SUCCESSFUL FIRST YEAR!
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ABOUT US
CYCLEVIA is a non-profit-making company stemming:
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oil companies who are members of UFIP Énergies et Mobilitiés;
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grease industrials who are members of the French Lubricant Industry National Trade Union (CSNIL);
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non-affiliated companies who are members of the French Professional Lubricants Centre (CPL).
22 companies
that account for nearly
lubricants market.
80% of the French
These companies joined forces to set up an Extended Producer Responsibility scheme in 2022. They’re now CYCLEVIA’s shareholders. However, any company defined by law as a producer can join.
To meet their legal obligations resulting from the regulatory framework, these companies chose to create a “financial” EPR basing their model on the management of collection, transportation, regeneration and recycling costs. This solution is well suited to the particularities of an industry that is already highly structured, and protects the industry’s competitive structure.
CYCLEVIA is exclusively financed thanks to the income obtained from its marketer members.
Take action for the industry and the environment.
OUR MISSION
To take responsibility for collecting and treating waste oils on behalf of our members marketers.
OUR CHALLENGE
Foster a circular economy and establish a “clean”, high-performance industry with minimum environmental impacts.
OUR OBJECTIVES
Improve collection to ensure that it’s efficient and comprehensive all over France
Promote oil regeneration and study new recycling methods.
Reduce waste oil incineration to recover energy.
Participate in developing new and innovative solutions: eco-design, biodegradation, a totally circular industry.
In practice and in order to achieve these objectives, CYCLEVIA provides the industry with funding in order to enable it to collect waste oils at no cost.
CYCLEVIA carries out audits to improve the efficiency of practices and to ensure that the collection system functions properly.
CYCLEVIA is overseeing the gradual growth of regeneration, namely by encouraging the incorporation of regenerated oil into the composition of new products and by conducting technical studies aimed at developing these new regeneration solutions.
In concrete terms, since 4 April 2022, CYCLEVIA has been in a position to carry out all of the missions defined by regulations. The producer responsibility organization participates towards the collection costs of registered operators. It also makes the scheme’s gradual implementation easier and provides for backdated coverage of collection costs that may have been incurred by waste oil holders since 1 January 2022.
This backdated coverage also concerns CYCLEVIA’s other financial obligations (treatment, local authorities, French overseas territories, etc.).
If you’re a manufacturer, an importer or a retailer selling own-brand mineral oils or equipment containing mineral oils on the French market then it’s your responsibility to join a producer responsibility organization.
As a marketer (also called “producer”) and under the French AGEC Law (Anti-waste and Circular Economy Law) you are responsible for the products that you introduce onto the French market and the waste that they generate at the end of their life cycle. To manage this waste, marketers can often choose between registering with a collective structure or implementing their own individual system. However, in the case of our EPR scheme, and owing to the nature of the products concerned, a collective structure is obligatory.
It’s your responsibility to register with your industry’s producer responsibility organization: CYCLEVIA.
ARE YOU A MARKETER?
Are you a professional or a local authority looking for your waste oils to be collected?
To fulfil its general interest mission and with a view to improving collection throughout France, CYCLEVIA provides you with a list of accredited collection-transfer station operators that are able to collect waste oils in your area.
Retrouvez ici la liste des collecteurs-regroupeurs à contacter / See the list of local collection-transfer station operators that you can contact
Why entrust your waste oils a approved collection-transfer station operator
To guarantee that collection is free of charge.
Moreover, as from 1 January 2022, CYCLEVIA retroactively covers your collection costs.
To make sure that your waste is in safe hands.
Operators registered with CYCLEVIA carry out their business according to a specific legal framework and according to the rules... They use tried and tested standardized practices that we regularly audit.
To ensure that your waste is sent to the right treatment facility.
CYCELVIA is guarantor of waste streams and promotes innovative and environmentally and socially responsible solutions.
To support the circular economy and take part in a virtuous national movement guided by the same environmental performance objectives.
TRACKDÉCHETS : simplifying tracking and providing transparency in the industry.
As from 1st January 2024, the Trackdéchets waste transfer note (WTN) is required to ensure the traceability of hazardous waste.
Trackdechets is a free digital platform implemented by the French Ministry of Ecological Transition. By making hazardous waste tracking paperless, this platform aims at simplifying its management and providing transparency and reliability in the sector’s treatment processes.
To help you implement this new practice, the public services have created tool such as tutorials, training courses, FAQ, etc.
In addition to the WTN, the digital format of which is now compulsory, you can keep the oil slip or (collection order) to establish the conditions of sale and the equipment required to handle the waste oils.
Producer
Transporter
Waste management professional
As a stakeholder in our industry, you play an essential role.
Whether you're an entity placing goods onto the market, a collection-transfer station operator, a treatment operator or a local authority, you have the opportunity to join CYCLEVIA and become part of the circular economy movement.
By joining, you’re choosing to become an integral part of the scheme and are participating towards improving its performance and ensuring a safer and more responsible future.
Do you wish to join?
Choose your business or activity and follow the guide.
The waste oil scheme is the first collective scheme implemented in France. For the moment, the scheme functions as an open market and is monitored by the ADEME.
For CYCLEVIA this means existing situation in hand and helping the sector to progress so as to achieve the objectives laid down in its government approval specifications. It also means ensuring operational continuity without disrupting a system that works well.
Under the management of André ZAFFIRO, Managing Director, and the presiding company, IGOL (CIPELIA Group), represented by François GUÉGAN, our team has 11 employees and is structured according to 5 divisions of expertise, allowing the producer responsibility organization to carry out its mission and be present all over France and in its overseas territories.
Our privacy policy.
Our activity requires us to collect data from the industry’s stakeholders, partners and competitors alike. CYCLEVIA undertakes to guarantee total confidentiality of all information entrusted to us.
Our team is also bound by very strict confidentiality clauses.
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