EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY Subject : Environment Context : The LG stressed the need to provide for a mechanism to effectively implement the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) pertaining to the collection of e-waste and its processing. Concept : Extended Producers Responsibility is essentially the use of financial incentives to encourage manufacturers to design environmentally […]

Subject: Environment Context: With increasing biomedical waste like PPE ,Centre needs to stitch together a national protocol that combines The Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016, with the recently released Environment Ministry guidelines on ‘extended producer responsibility’ (EPR) for producers of plastic. Concept: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach under which producers are given […]