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New E-waste Management Rules 2016 to come into force from 1st October 2016
Written By mediavigil on Friday, April 01, 2016 | 12:40 AM
The 42 page long new E-waste Management Rules 2016 applies to every manufacturer, producer, consumer, bulk consumer, collection centres, dealers, e-retailer, refurbisher, dismantler and recycler involved in manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, collection, storage and processing of e-waste or electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule I, including their components, consumables, parts and spares which make the product operational. It was notified on 23rd March , 2016. It shall come into force from the 1st day of October, 2016.
It does not apply to used lead acid batteries as covered under the Batteries (Management and
Handling) Rules, 2001 made under the Act; micro enterprises as defined in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (27 of 2006); and radio-active wastes as covered under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 (33 of 1962) and rules made there under.
Clause 16 of the Rules provides "Every producer of electrical and electronic equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares listed in Schedule I shall ensure that, new Electrical and Electronic Equipment and their components or consumables or parts or spares do not contain Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers beyond a maximum concentration value of 0.1% by weight in homogenous materials for lead, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers and of 0.01% by weight in homogenous materials for cadmium."
As per the Rules 'environmentally sound management of e-waste' means taking al
l steps required to ensure that e-waste is managed in a manner which shall protect health and environment against any adverse effects, which may result from such e-waste.
The Rules define 'e-waste' as electrical and electronic equipment, whole or in part discarded
as waste by the consumer or bulk consumer as well as rejects from manufacturing, refurbishment and repair processes.
It defines ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ as responsibility of any producer of electrical or electronic equipment, for channelisation of e-waste to ensure environmentally sound management of such waste. Extended Producer Responsibility may comprise of implementing take back system or setting up of collection centres or both and having agreed arrangements with authorised dismantler or recycler either individually or collectively through a Producer Responsibility Organisation recognised by producer or producers in their Extended Producer Responsibility - Authorisation.
Public hearing on Koilwar-Babura Road, Bhojpur against Common Hazardous Waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility on the bank of river
Written By Unknown on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 | 3:20 AM
October 16, 2014 is the date fixed for a public hearing at 11 AM at Ambika Sharan Singh High School, Jamalpur, Post- Naya Mohammadpur, District Bhojpur as per an advertisement by Bihar State Pollution Control Board.
Adjacent to Sone river in the vicinity of residential areas of the village in the proximity of the main road an Integrated Common Hazardous Waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility proposed at Mahui Mauza, Koilwar-Babura Road Bhojpur, Bihar has been proposed by M/s Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd, Hyderabad in area of 57.24 acres. It was rejected by Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of Union Ministry of Environment & Forests for Building/Construction Projects/Township and Area Development Projects, Coastal Regulation Zone, Infrastructure Development and Miscellaneous projects in Nov. 2012.
But in June 2013 it somehow got approved by EAC for TOR of the EIA for public hearing. The public hearing is scheduled for 16.10.2014 as per an advertisement by Bihar State Pollution Control Board in The Times of India Patna edition dated September 6, 2014.
Adjacent to Sone river in the vicinity of residential areas of the village in the proximity of the main road an Integrated Common Hazardous Waste treatment, storage, disposal and recycling facility proposed at Mahui Mauza, Koilwar-Babura Road Bhojpur, Bihar has been proposed by M/s Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd, Hyderabad in area of 57.24 acres. It was rejected by Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of Union Ministry of Environment & Forests for Building/Construction Projects/Township and Area Development Projects, Coastal Regulation Zone, Infrastructure Development and Miscellaneous projects in Nov. 2012.
But in June 2013 it somehow got approved by EAC for TOR of the EIA for public hearing. The public hearing is scheduled for 16.10.2014 as per an advertisement by Bihar State Pollution Control Board in The Times of India Patna edition dated September 6, 2014.
It is deeply disturbing that this violates the Expert Appraisal
Committee (EAC)’s own recommendations besides all existing environmental
norms in the rule book including Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling
and Trans-boundary movement)) Rules, 2008 and Bio-Medical Waste
(Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. The proposed facility is in an
ecologically sensitive zone. The hazardous waste-cum-biomedical waste
facility admittedly gives birth to risks of all cancers and specifically of stomach, colorectal, liver and lung cancer that increases with closer proximity to incinerators.