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INFORMATION ON E-WASTE HANDLING AND MANAGEMENT
Dear Customer,
The Ministry of Environment and Forests have published The Ewaste (Management
and Handling ) Rules 2010 which comes in effect from 1
st
May 2012.
E-waste is defined as any electrical or electronic component of products in whole
or in part, or rejects from their manufacturing or repair process which are
intended to be discarded.
These rules apply to every producer, consumer or bulk consumer involved in the
manufacture, sale, purchase and processing of electrical and electronic equipment
or components as specified in Schedule 1 (please refer to our website
www.godrej.com in the „Good & Green‟ section of CSR module for more details).
Under these rules, specific roles and responsibilities are defined for producers ,
consumers and recyclers handling and managing ewaste.
E-waste is to be managed in an environmentally sound manner which means,
taking steps to ensure that health and environment are protected from adverse
effects of hazardous substance contained in such wastes.
Rule 6 of the Ewaste (Management and Handling) Rules 2010 states that bulk
consumers of electrical and electronic equipment shall be responsible for recycling
of the e-waste generated by them. Bulk consumer means bulk users of electronic
and electrical equipment such as Central Government or State Government
Departments, public sector undertakings, banks, educational institutions,
multinational organizations, international agencies, private companies that are
registered under the Factories act 1948 and Companies act 1956. The bulk
consumers have to ensure that the e-waste generated by them is channelized to
authorized collection centers or is taken back by the producers. They shall
maintain records of ewaste generated by them in Form 2 and make such records
available for scrutiny by the State pollution control or the Pollution control
Committee concerned.
All consumers of electrical and electronic equipment irrespective of their status as
bulk consumers or not , shall ensure that ewaste generated by them is channelized
to authorized collection center(s) or registered dismantler(s), or recycler(s) or is
returned to the pick-up/take back services provided by the producers. (Please