E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022
The E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2022, notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, govern the environmentally sound handling of electronic waste in India and came into force from 1 April 2023, replacing the E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016. The rules establish an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework under which producers (manufacturers, brand owners, and importers) bear the responsibility for collecting and channelling end-of-life electronics to registered recyclers/dismantlers.
- Administered through a centralised EPR portal run by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), where producers, recyclers, and refurbishers register and report
- Producers must meet annual EPR collection/recycling targets, tradable in the form of EPR certificates
- The 2022 Rules extended coverage from 21 items (under the 2016 Rules) to 106 categories of electrical and electronic equipment, and for the first time separately regulate the recovery of specific materials
- Current EPR-linked material recovery obligations are effectively concentrated on a narrow set of metals (such as gold, copper, iron, and aluminium), leaving critical minerals and rare earths largely outside formal recovery targets
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