The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has unveiled substantial changes to the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022, by launching the Management of Waste Battery Amendments Rules 2023. These latest revisions mark a pivotal moment, specifically impacting the roles and obligations delineated in rules 8 and 9. In Rule 8, titled “Functions of…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released the Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management & Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2023 (12.07.2023). In the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 (hereinafter in this notification referred to as the said rules) in Schedule III, in Part D, against Basel No. B1110,…
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has issued show cause notice under section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 for non-compliance of Plastic Waste Management Rules,2016. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of…
CPCB has release notice regarding the generation & transfer of the EPR certificate on centralized EPR portal. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied in the field of…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released draft notification on EPR for Used Oil under the Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management & Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2023 (02.05.2023) and added “Extended Producer Responsibility” for used oil. As per this draft rules, (i) Producers, (ii) Collection agents, (iii) Recyclers, (iv) Used Oil importers…
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has released a new notification for the removal of difficulties in the implementation of EPR guidelines. Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the estimated environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product, contemporarily mainly applied…
Central Pollution Control Board has been released direction to the all State Pollution Control Boards under Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986 regarding implementation of guidelines for EPR on Plastic Packaging. Guidelines on EPR for Plastic Packaging were notified by MoEF&CC on February 16, 2022 in Schedule – II of 4th amendment of…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change on 31st December 2021 has notified the norms for fly ash utilization notification for coal fired power plants. Now, on 30th December 2022 new notification has been published with some new update. The ash generated from coal or lignite based thermal power plants shall be utilized only for the…
Gujarat Pollution Control Board has released a list of waste recyclers from Gujarat. The list was last updated in May 2022. It includes e-waste recyclers from Gujarat, plastic waste recyclers from Gujarat, lead recyclers from Gujarat, used oil recyclers from Gujarat, waste oil recyclers from Gujarat, metal waste recyclers from Gujarat, waste acid recyclers from…
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change has released ERP for Tyre Producers under the Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management & Transboundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2022 (21.07.2021) and added “Extended Producer Responsibility” for waste tyre management. According to the provision of this legal obligation, the target for recycling of waste rubber/ tyre has been…
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