HAZARDOUS WASTE: Management, Responsibilities

Hazardous waste is characterized as a waste that is hazardous to the public or the environment. Though liquids, solids, gases, or sludge’s are also in their simplest form, we also think of harmful waste as the means of pollution: liquid waste, clinical and medical waste and e-waste.

Safe handling of the production, treatment, packages, storage, transportation, reuse, collection, conversion and disposal, destruction and disposal of hazardous waste shall be identified in the Hazardous Waste Management Rules. This Rules came into force in 1989, and were revised in 2000, 2003, 2008, and the Rules on Hazardous and Other Wastes, 2016 with the final notification.

PROCEDURE FOR MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS AND OTHER WASTES

Occupier’s responsibilities in hazardous waste and other waste management.

1. For the management of hazardous and other wastes, an occupier shall follow the following steps, namely:-

• Prevention;
• Minimization;
• Reuse,
• Recycling;
• Recovery, Utilization Including Co-Processing;
• Safe Disposal.

2. A safe and environmentally sustainable disposal of hazardous or other waste shall be the responsibility of the occupier.

3. The hazardous and other waste created by an occupier’s establishment shall be either transmitted or sold to an authorized actual user, or disposed of at an approved disposal facility.

4. The hazardous waste and other waste shall be moved, in compliance with the provisions of those rules, from an occupying facility to an authorized service provider or an authorized disposal facility.

5. The occupier shall take all the steps while managing hazardous and other wastes

Responsibilities of State Government for environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes

(1) Department of Industry of the State or other government agencies that are allowed to make sure that current and forthcoming industrial buildings, estate and industrial cluster waste is allocated or disposed of for recycling, pre-processing and the other use of risky or other waste;

(2) The State Department of Labor or any other government agency authorized by the State Government in this connection;

(a) Ensuring that staff engaged in recycling, preprocessing and other use activities are identified and registered;

(b) To promote the establishment of such facilities to the establishment of groups of such workers;

© Participate in industrial skill development for recycling, pre-processing and other use workers;

(d) Perform annual monitoring to ensure the safety and health of recycling employees, pre-processing workers and other uses.

(3) An effective plan for effective implementation of these provisions may be prepared by each State Government and submitted in the Central Government to the Ministry of the Environment, Forests and Climate change an annual report.

Power to suspend or cancel an Authorization-

(1) The State Pollution Control Board, may, if in its opinion the holder of the authorisation has failed to comply with any of the conditions of the authorisation or with any provisions of the Act or these rules and after giving him a reasonable opportunity of being heard and after recording reasons thereof in writing cancel or suspend the authorisation issued under rule 6 for such period as it considers necessary in the public interest.

(2) Upon suspension or cancellation of the authorisation, the State Pollution Control Board may give directions to the person whose authorisation has been suspended or cancelled for the safe storage and management of the hazardous and other wastes, and such occupier shall comply with such directions.

Treatment, storage and disposal facility for hazardous and other wastes.-

(1) Identification of sites for the establishment of a facility for the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous and other wastes in the state, individually or jointly or severely by the State Government, the operator of the facility, the occupier or the operator of any association. Will be responsible for

(2) The operators of the common facility or captive facility shall design and set up the treatment, storage and disposal facility in accordance with the technical guidelines issued by the Central Pollution Control Board from time to time in this regard. State Pollution Control Board for design and layout in this regard.

(3) The State Pollution Control Board shall regularly monitor the operation and operation of general or captive treatment, storage and disposal facilities.

(4) In accordance with the guidelines or standard operating procedures issued by the Central Facility Control Board from time to time, the facility and the general facility for safe and environmentally sound operation for its closure and subsequent phase of closure; The operator of the captive facility will be responsible. on time.

(5) The operator of the general facility or the officer of a detention facility shall maintain records of hazardous and other wastes handled by him in Form 3.

(6) The operator receiving the general facility or captive facility shall file the annual return in Form 4 to the State Pollution Control Board on or before 30 June after the financial year after the financial year.

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