{"id":86659,"date":"2019-03-07T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T12:14:11","slug":"environment-ministry-plugs-loophole-that-allowed-plastic-waste-import-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/environment-ministry-plugs-loophole-that-allowed-plastic-waste-import-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Ministry plugs loophole that allowed plastic waste import"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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  1. The government has amended the Hazardous and\nOther Wastes (Management and Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2016. The rules\ndeals with environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes. <\/li>
  2. Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management& Trans-boundary\nMovement) Amendment Rules, 2019 has prohibited import of solid plastic waste to\nIndia including in Special Economic Zones (SEZ) and by Export Oriented Units\n(EOU). Previously, Hazardous Waste Management rules 2016 had allowed companies\nlocated in SEZs to import solid plastic waste. Import of plastic waste was\nalso allowed by EOUs.<\/li>
  3. The Rules have exempted exporters of silk waste from\nrequiring permission from the Environment Ministry of Environment, Forest and\nClimate Change.<\/li>
  4. The rules have also mentioned that electrical\nand electronic assemblies and components manufactured in and exported from\nIndia, if found defective, can be imported back into India, within a year of\nexport, without obtaining permission from the Environment Ministry.<\/li>
  5. Under other amendments in the rules, white\ncategory industries exempted from requiring authorization also under the\nHazardous and Other Wastes (Management & Trans-boundary Movement) Rules,\n2016, provided hazardous and other wastes generated in their units are handed\nover to authorised users, waste collectors or disposal facilities.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The government has amended the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Trans-boundary Movement) Rules, 2016. The rules deals with environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes. Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management& Trans-boundary Movement) Amendment Rules, 2019 has prohibited import of solid plastic waste to India including in Special Economic Zones (SEZ) and by Export… Continue reading Environment Ministry plugs loophole that allowed plastic waste import<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4230,2636],"class_list":["post-86659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-hazardous-and-other-wastes-management-and-trans-boundary-movement-rules","tag-plastic-waste","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703642665},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}