The State Pollution Control Board Odisha (SPCB Odisha) on January 02, 2024, issued a notification regarding all Producers, Collection Agents, Recyclers and Used Oil Importers shall have to register in the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) Portal.
Producers (any person or entity, who manufactures and offers to sell base oil (any oil used for production of finished lubrication oil) or lubrication oil domestically under its own brand or offers to sell lubrication oil domestically under its own brand, using the base oil manufactured by other manufacturers or suppliers or offers to sell imported base oil or lubrication oil domestically) Collection Agents (any person or entity who collects used oil and supplies it to the recycler), Recyclers (any person or entity engaged in the process of re-refining of used oil to produce base all or lubrication oil or any process of energy recovery from used oil Used Oil Importers (any person or entity who imports used oil) and Bulk Generator (any entity like Automobile Industry or Railways or Defence establishments or a transport company or industrial units or power transmission company or hotels or restaurants and other such entity which is generating more than 100 metric tonnes of used oil per annum)
This is to bring to the notice that the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Second Amendment Rules, 2023 which is going to be in force from April 01, 2024, all Producers, Collection Agents, Recyclers and Used Oil Importers shall have to register in the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) Portal of CPCB.
[Notification No.84 IND-IV-HW-MISC-429]
