Production VS Usage

The E-waste (management and

handling) Rules, 2011
• Apply to the disposal of electronics, either in whole or part.

• Guidelines for Implementation of –E-Waste rule by CPCB-2011

• Came into an action by 2012

• Producers of equipment listed in the rules, collection centers, recyclers, and

dismantlers must all obtain authorization from the relevant SPCB before
commencing their activities.
 Salient Features “ E-Waste Rule -
2011”
• Responsibilities of the producer ( Extended Producer Responsibility ( EPR)

• Responsibilities of collection centers

• Responsibility of the dismantler

• Responsibility to the recyclers

• RoHS -Restriction on use of Haz Substances ( Lead, Mercury, Cadmium,

Hexavalent Chromium, Polybrominated Biphenyls, Polybrominated biphenyl
ethers)

• Flexibility in implementation offered to producers

• Select categories of products included in rules (lighting excluded)

 Issues in E-Waste Management
• Enforcement of EPR
• Infrastructure collection and recycling
• Informal sector
• Absence of targets
• Capabilities of PCBs and resources
• Understanding of the rule
• Mindset of inspector raj
 Scope for Improvement

• Compliance by the State Pollution Control boards.

• High recycling standards to create market for recycled products

• Lack of data on generation, infrastructure and recycling quantities

EPR Principle
 Issues in the Present Governance
• Implementation lie with State Environment Department, SPCBs and Urban bodies

• Multiple agencies

• Coordination & conflict with departments ( Ex: Biomedical Waste Managements)

• Interstate conflict

• Cost to regulate

• Lack of research and infrastructure

• Accountability of agencies

• Informal sector
 Scope for Improvements
• Improve capacities of SPCBs

• Improve coordination among the ministries

• Streamline the management practices

• Role of civil society

• Fixing the responsibilities and accountabilities

• Accountability of the private players

• Societal Risk Analysis vs Business Model

• Budget for the cost of regulation

• Separate financial mechanism for waste management

 New Age Resource Management
• Decouple economic growth and environmental degradation

• Lifecycle thinking

• Resource efficiency

• Design for environment

• New thinking on waste policy

• New Business opportunity

 India’s Outlook
• Traditionally belief in the protection of mother earth

• Article 48 (A) of the constitution: Protection and improvement of environment

and safeguarding of forests and wild life.

• In due course environment has been linked to the Right to Life ( Article -21)

• The Environment Protection Act-1986 came into force

• Environment in central list

 International Law
There are international laws related to the transportation of hazardous waste:

• Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Caused during Carriage of Dangerous

Goods by Road, Rail, and Inland Navigation Vessels (CRTD), Geneva, 1989

• Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and

their Disposal, Basel, 1989

• Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary
Movements and Management of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa, Bamako, 1991

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 International Law
• Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain
Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade,
Rotterdam, 1998

• Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents,

Helsinki, 1992

• European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of

Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways (AND), Geneva, 2000

• European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of

Dangerous Goods by Road (ADR), Geneva, 1957

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 International Law
• FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) International Code of
Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, Rome, 1985
• Minamata Convention on Mercury, Minamata 2013
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Stockholm, 2001
• Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Island Countries of
Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the
Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes
within the South Pacific Region, Waigani, 1995

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 The Environmental Protection Act (UK)
• Adopted in 1990, relates to controlled wastes is the successor to
the Control of Pollution Act 1974 and makes provision for the
management of pollution from industrial processes.

• The Environmental Protection Act deals with issues relating to

waste on land, defining all aspects of waste management and
places a duty on local authorities to collect waste.

• Businesses have a duty to ensure that any waste the company

produces is handled safely and within the law.

• It applies to anyone who produces, imports, transports, stores,

treats or disposes of controlled waste from businesses or
industries.
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