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Guidelines on plastic management ready, to be rolled out in six months
he Ministry of Environment, officially called: fee-based model, Producer Responsibility
TForest and Climate Change Organisations (PROs) model and credit model. PROs are
(MoEFCC) has prepared the long- third party entities that manage waste on behalf of
delayed national framework manufacturers. According to an MoEFCC note submitted
for extended producer’s to the NGT, small manufacturers will be charged a fee,
responsibility (EPR), which which will be deposited to the EPR fund, for getting their
would be implemented in the plastic waste recycled by urban local bodies. “Medium and
next six months. It was replying large producers who don’t have expertise in recycling their
to a petition in the National waste can rope in Producer Responsibility Organisations,
Green Tribunal (NGT), seeking or PROs (companies that excel in waste management),”
directions to producers and manufacturers to manage Khare said. Large companies can also obtain credits by
and recycle their plastic waste. Under the Plastic Waste sending their waste to waste-to-energy plants or cement
Management Rules, it is mandatory for companies to factories or recycling units. When asked why another six
ensure that their plastic does not reach landfills or end to eight months were required to implement EPR, Khare
up on streets.The EPR framework has three components said the ministry was developing a website where all
based on the size of a company — small, medium and companies can register themselves, and tenders had to
large — Nidhi Khare, Joint Secretary at MoEFCC, told an invited for the same.
NGT bench headed by A K Goel. The three models are
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