Tag: E-Waste

BPCL Launches E-Waste Management Initiative to Further Strengthen Sustainable Development Goals

The company has issued a directive on E-Waste Management across their organisation for effective management including timely disposal in line with the statutory requirements. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a ‘Maharatna’ and a Fortune Global 500 Company,  announced the launch of a special initiative “Sound Management of waste Disposal (SMWD)”, as a part of their sustainability efforts towards the reduction and recycling of e-waste. The company has issued a directive on E-Waste Management across their organisation for effective management including timely disposal in line with the statutory requirements. BPCL is…

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A hike of 18% in E-waste disposal to be likely in Indore

INDORE: Around 325- 350 tonne e-waste, more than 18 per cent from a year ago, is expected to get disposed and recycled in the financial year 2023 ending in March led by increase in disposal from offices, establishments and households. The Madhya Pradesh police is also contemplating to dispose of legacy e-waste from their offices and godowns accumulated over the years. Around 275 tonne e-waste had reached the disposal facility in the financial year 2022, according to the e-waste recycler registered with control board from indore. Fazal Husain, a registered…

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India Implements New E-Waste (Management) Rules Effective From 1st April, 2023

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022 which shall be in effect from the 1stApril, 2023. The official notification contains chapter-wise rules and regulations, responsibilities, procedures, modes and ways to tackle e-waste management. Specifically, the rules shall adhere to every manufacturer, producer rebuilder, dismantler and recycler indulged in the manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, refurbishing, dismantling, recycling and processing of e-waste or electrical and electronic equipment including their components, consumables, parts and spares which make the product operational. The executing committee shall be liable…

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