Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) has notified Battery Waste Management Rule, 2022, for management of waste, produced by batteries in the environment on 24th August 2022. The Rules will replace existing Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001. The new rules aim to eliminate gaps of previous rules with relation to producer’s responsibility. […]
Read More →Single-use plastic products are used only once before these are thrown away or recycled. Such items are often termed as disposable plastic. For eg. Straws, cutlery items, earbuds etc. India roughly produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste each year of which most of the waste is non-recyclable and pollute the environment adversely. To […]
Read More →The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has announced a ban on the entry of plastic waste into Delhi from neighboring states. The stakeholders and the general public has been asked not to keep any stock of single-use plastic after June 30, 2022. The Union Environment Ministry notified comprehensive guidelines onExtended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastic […]
Read More →In order to ease process of application for various consents and renewals; Delhi Pollution Control Board (DPCB) issued various relaxations under Environmental Rules dated 18.06.2021 pursuant to several Office order issued with the approval of competent authority. The summary of relaxations is enumerated below – Renewal of registration auto generated subject to self certification, undertaking […]
Read More →In a bid to provide a major boost to the development of eco-friendly industries and ease of doing business in Punjab, the state government in pursuant to office order 273 dated 04th May 2021 has decided to exempt DG set(s) having total capacity of 1 MVA (Mega Volt Amp) or less provided/being provided for setting […]
Read More →The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) on August 07, 2020 had announced Voluntary Disclosure Scheme (VDS) for all the industries, institutes and other establishments to ensure the compliance of Environmental Laws. The board has extended the date for filing the online applications under the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme from 31 March 2021 to 30 June 2021 […]
Read More →Pollution is one of the global environmental issues which poses a threat to all the countries in the world including India. As per the survey done by IQ Air in 2020,India was the 3rd most polluted country in the world.In India there are various environmental laws enacted with the intention of controlling pollution. The word […]
Read More →“Let’s create a better tomorrow, let’s preserve nature-today” is the tag line of Pollution Control Boards in India and this is true in every sense. For every creature on the earth, the need of clean and unpolluted environment is like blood in body. Even after knowing this fact, we people are so irresponsible towards it; […]
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