Procedure of Hazardous Waste Management and Other Waste- Corpseed
by Khushi Tayal Digital MarketerHazardous Waste
Management Rules are published to ensure safe handling, processing,
generation, treatment, storage, package, transportation, use, reprocessing,
collection, and offering for sale, destruction, and disposal of Hazardous
Waste.
The Rules lay down emphasis on the equal duty of every
person who is engaged in the collection, storage, packaging, transportation,
use, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing,
utilization, offering for sale, transfer, or disposal of the hazardous and
other wastes and many authorities that are involved in the process of granting
authorization for Hazardous
Waste such as MoEF, CPCB, State/UT Govt., SPCBs/PCCs, DGFT, Port
Authority and Custom Authority.
Every person of the facility who is included in handling,
generation, storage, collection, packaging, transportation, use, treatment,
processing, recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing, utilization,
offering for sale, transfer, or disposal of the hazardous and other wastes
shall be required to get a clearance from the SPCB.
The person shall be responsible for secure and
environment-friendly administration of hazardous and other wastes.
The person shall take all the steps for handling hazardous
waste management and other wastes to avoid accidents and limit their
impact on human beings and the atmosphere and present persons working in the
site with personal emergency equipment, training, and the required information
to ensure their safety.
hazardous waste" means each waste which because of
symptoms such as biological, physical, chemical, reactive, flammable, toxic, and
explosive or corrosive, causes danger or is likely to create trouble to health
or environment, whether alone or in connection with other wastes or substances,
and shall include
(i) waste defined below column (3) of Schedule I
(ii) debris having similar to or more than the concentration
limits specified for the parts in class A and class B of Schedule II or any of
the characteristics as specified in class C of Schedule II; and
(iii) wastes defined in Part A of Schedule III in respect of
import or export of such wastes or the wastes not defined in Part A but present
hazardous characteristics specified in Part C of Schedule III
"other wastes" means wastes defined in Part B and
Part D of Schedule III for import or export and includes all such waste
produced indigenously within the country.
"occupier" about any factory or premises means a
person who has control over the factory's activities or the bases and involves
concerning any hazardous and other wastes, the person in possession of the
dangerous or other waste.
"actual user" means an occupier who obtains and
prepares hazardous and other waste for reuse, recycling, recovery,
pre-processing, utilization, including co-processing.
"common treatment, storage and distribution
facility" means a common facility approved and established individually or
jointly or exclusively by the State Government, occupier, operator of the
equipment or any community of occupiers that shall be applied as a common
facility by various occupiers of real users for treatment, area, and disposal
of the hazardous and other wastes.
Means of the importer that any person or occupier who
imports dangerous or other waste.
Means of the exporter that any person or occupier under the
exporting country's jurisdiction export dangerous or other wastes, including
the country that exports hazardous or other trash.
"pre-processing" means treating waste to create it
proper for co-processing or recycling or any additional processing.
"co-processing" means using waste materials in
production methods for energy or resource recovery or both and the resultant
reduction in the use of traditional fuels or raw materials or both into a
substitution.
"recycling" means recycling and processing hazardous
or other waste in an environmentally safe way for the originally designed
purpose or other purposes.
"reuse" means using dangerous or other waste for
its original use or other use.
"recovery" means any action or movement wherein
particular materials are recovered.
"utilisation" means the use of hazardous or other
waste as a source.
"storage" means storing any hazardous or other
waste for a short period, at the end of which such waste is prepared or
disposed of
"transport" means the off-site movement of
hazardous or other wastes by air, road, rail, or water.
"transboundary movement" means any act of
hazardous or other wastes from an area below the jurisdiction of one country to
or through a site under the jurisdiction of another country or to or through an
area not under the jurisdiction of any country, presented that at least two
countries are an included in the movement.
"manifest" means transporting documents provided
and signed by the sender authorized following the provisions of these rules.
"treatment" means a process, technique or method,
created to change the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics or
distribution of any hazardous or other waste to reduce its potential to cause
harm.
"disposal" means any operation which does not lead
to reuse, recycling, recovery, utilization, including co-processing, and
involves Physico-chemical treatment, biological treatment, incineration, and
disposal in a secured landfill.
"authorisation" means permission for generation,
handling, reception, collection, treatment, storage, transport, reuse,
recycling, recovery, pre-processing, utilization including co-processing, and
disposal of hazardous wastes granted under sub-rule (2) of rule 6.
Power to suspend or cancel an authorisation
(a) The State Pollution Control Board may reject the
authorization published after giving a reasonable chance of being caught and
after recording purposes thereof in writing if the holder of the commission has
failed to comply with any of the provisions of the authorization issued or with
any requirements of the Act or these rules as it considers necessary in the
public interest.
(b) Upon delay or cancellation of the authorization, the
State Pollution Control Board may give commands to the person whose license has
been suspended or cancelled for the safe storage and administration of the
dangerous and other wastes, and such occupier shall comply with such
regulations.
Procedure for Export of hazardous and other wastes from India
(a) Any occupier aiming to export waste defined in Part A of
Schedule III, Part B of Schedule III and Schedule VI, shall make an appeal in
Form 5 along with insurance protection to the Ministry of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change for the intended transboundary movement of the hazardous and
other wastes commonly with the prior learned consent in writing from the
importing nation in respect of wastes defined in Part A of Schedule III and
Schedule VI.
(b) The exporter shall also ensure that a movement document
in Form 6 accompanies the shipment.
(c) The exporter of the hazardous and different wastes shall
keep the records of the dangerous or other waste dumped by him in Form 3, and
the description so prepared shall be open for inspection.
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