The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on January 30, 2024, issued a notification regarding Direction regarding the registration of Producers, Manufacturers, Recyclers and Refurbishers on the Online E-Waste EPR Portal for management of E-Waste and Verification of Capacities allocated to the Recyclers.
All the entities such as Producers, Manufacturers, Recyclers, and Refurbishers of the E-Waste on the E-Waste EPR Portal must do the following-
- To provide the updated list of entities engaged in the generation, recycling & refurbishing of E-Waste (Producers, Importers, Recyclers and Refurbishers) and ensure their onboarding on the E-Waste EPR Portal of CPCB,
- To issue notice to all such entities who are operating without registration, followed by the closure of such entities;
- To immediately physically verify the facilities of E-Waste Recyclers and Refurbishers in the State/UT in terms of various details such as its GPS location, GPS tagged photos/videos, waste category as raw material (EEE code wise), installed plant & machinery and their actual production capacity, capability, etc. as submitted on E-Waste EPR Portal.
- To take action against such Recyclers and Refurbishers who have uploaded their details falsely or not correctly on the EPR Portal as per verification as at point above and to recommend CPCB immediately for correcting details on the EPR portal to ensure that no false EPR Certificate is being generated in the State/UT. Further, necessary changes be also made in the CTO accordingly and informed to CPCB.
- To carry out drives for identifying informal/illegal E-waste recyclers/refurbishers including clusters/areas where such illegal recyclers/refurbishers are operating and to close such informal recycling/refurbishing units immediately.
- To facilitate the transformation of such informal Villegal E-waste recyclers/refurbishers into formal recyclers/refurbishers and consent mechanism by way of providing necessary technical support, hand holding, Integrating with schemes in the SPCB/PCC, etc.
- To also issue advertisements in the newspapers in vernacular language for the immediate closing of illegal.
Action Taken Report to this office within 15 days of receipt of these directions.
[Notification No. CP-22/2/2024-WM-III-CPCB-HO0165-9200]
