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Hazardous Waste management Delhi

The Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India, notified the Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling) Rules on July 28, 1989 under the provisions of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, and further amendments made thereof, the Central Government vide G.S.R. 395(E) dated 4th April 2016 published the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 to ensure safe handling, generation, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use reprocessing, collection, conversion, and offering for sale, destruction and disposal of Hazardous Waste.

As per Rule 4 of the Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, as amended to date, inter-alia provides that an occupier of a facility shall be responsible for safe and environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes generated in the establishment and hazardous and other wastes generated shall be sent or sold to an authorized actual user or shall be disposed of in an authorized disposal facility.

As per the rule 6 of the Hazardous & Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, as amended to date, every occupier of facility, handling, generation, collection, storage, packaging, transportation, use, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing, utilization, offering for sale, transfer or disposal of the hazardous waste and other wastes shall be required to obtain an authorization from Delhi Pollution Control Committee(DPCC).

Purpose

  1. Hazardous waste means any waste which causes danger to health or environment, whether alone or when in contact with other waste.
  2. The key objectives of these rules are to minimize the hazardous waste in terms of quantity, to dispose off as close to the source and reduce the trans boundary movement.


PROVISIONS

  1. Every hazardous waste handling/generating unit has been made responsible for collection, reception, treatment, storage and disposal of the hazardous waste.
  2. Mandatory authorization from the SPCB is to be sought for collection, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous Waste.
  3. Import and export of hazardous waste is not permitted for dumping and disposal.
  4. Import and export of HW is permitted as raw materials for recycling and reuse subject to the complaince of procedure prescribed involving the grant permission from MoEF for such import and export HW.
  5. Under these rules the HWGUs may also dispose their hazardous at a common disposal site(s) identified and finalized after a proper environmental impact assessment.
  6. Recyclers/re- refiners of non-ferrous metal, waste/used oil are required to register themselves with CPCB. Owner or occupier generating specified non ferrous metal waste or generating used oil or waste oil of 10 tons or more per annum are required to sell to auction such waste only to a registered re=refinet or recyclers.
  7. The implementation of the said rules is of utmost importance now a days in view of on going case before Hon'ble Supreme Court in which issues of national and international importance are being addressed. The high power committee constituted in pursuance of the court orders has suggested that all the industries involved in hazardous chemicals and generating hazardous wastes display online data outside the factory gate, on quantity and nature of hazardous chemicals being used in the plant as well as water and air emissions and solid wastes generating in the factory premises. In case of failure to do so the units may even be asked to close down.


Common pre-requisites for obtaining authorization for storage under HW Rules

  1. Display of updated data outside the main factory gate in two boards of size 6 feet x 4 feet both in English and in Hindi (the local language).
  2. Storage facility should have appropriate containment system.
  3. The container/enclosure holding hazardous waste should be marked 'Hazardous Waste' in red colour in English/in Hindi and should bear the prescribed label.
  4. The occupier must take precautions to prevent any accidental ignition or reaction of ignitable or reactive waste.
  5. The containment system should be leak proof and able to drain / remove liquids.
  6. Units that store hazardous waste should do so in such a manner that it does not in any way contaminate the environment or the ground water due to air/rain/seepage/leakage etc.
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