Hazardous and Other Waste (Management & Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2016

Hazardous and Other Waste (Management & Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2016 were notified to ensure environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes.

Salient Features

• The ambit of the earlier notification (Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2008 has been expanded by including ‘Other-Waste’; authorization and registration requirement is replaced with one permission i.e., authorization under the rules for all stakeholders handling the hazardous and other waste; waste management hierarchy in the sequence of priority as prevention, minimization, reuse, recycling, recovery, co-processing; and safe disposal being incorporated;
• The process of import/export of waste under the rules has been streamlined by simplifying the ....