Lok Sabha Question No. 2653 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2020-03-06
Subject: Management of Hazardous Wastes
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: Jayant Sinha

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2653

TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.03.2020

## Management of Hazardous Wastes

## 2653 . SHRI JAYANT SINHA

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  schemes  introduced/steps  taken  by  the  Government  for  systematic management of hazardous wastes such as chemicals and industrial solvents;
- (b) the details  of steps taken by the Government in promoting recycling of solid waste along with the number of solid waste recycling plants in Jharkhand, district wise; and
- (c) the  number  of  waste  management  plants  constructed  under  Common  Bio-Medical Waste  Treatment  and  Disposal  Facility  scheme  along  with  the  number  of  plants currently operational, State-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE (SHRI BABUL SUPRIYO)

- (a) Government  has  taken  the  following  steps  for  systematic  management  of  hazardous wastes such as chemicals and industrial solvents:
- (i) Government of India has notified the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 to ensure safe storage, treatment and disposal of  hazardous  wastes  in  an  environmentally  sound  manner  without  causing  adverse effect  to  environment  and  human  health.  Schedule  I  of  the  said  Rules  stipulates various  categories  of  hazardous  wastes  (including  Spent  solvent  generated  from various industrial processes) corresponding to manufacturing processes listed therein.
- (ii) The handling, generation, collection, storage, packaging, transportation, use, treatment, processing, recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing, utilisation, offering for sale, transfer or disposal of the hazardous waste are to be carried out only after  obtaining  an  authorization  from  the  concerned  State  Pollution  Control  Board (SPCB)/ Pollution Control Committee (PCC) and in accordance with the procedures laid down under the Rule 6 of the said Rules.
- (iii)In accordance with provisions stipulated under Rule 9 of Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has prepared 54 Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs) for utilization of 40 different categories of hazardous waste, which includes spent solvent (generated from industrial uses of solvents; production and/or industrial use of paints. pigment, lacquers,  varnishes  and  inks;  production  or  industrial  use  of  synthetic  dyes,  dyeintermediates  and  pigments;  production/formulation  of  drugs/pharmaceutical  and
- health  care  product,  and;  production  and  formulation  of  pesticides  including  stockpiles) for recovery of solvent.
- (iv) There are 42 Common Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs) available in 18 States/UTs of which, 18 are integrated TSDFs having both secured landfills  and  incinerators;  10  have standalone  common  incinerators,  and  14 have only secured landfills.
- (b) Government  of  India  in  supersession  of  Municipal  Solid  Waste  (Management  and Handling)  Rules,  2000,  has  notified  the  Solid  Waste  Management  Rules,  2016. The Rules prescribe the waste generators to segregate the waste at source and hand over the segregated waste to authorized waste pickers or waste collectors to channelize the waste for  useful  purposes  such  as  recovery,  reuse  and  recycle.  There  are  4773  registered plastic manufacturing / compostable manufacturing /Multi-Layer Plastic manufacturing /  recycling  units  in  the  country.One  plastic  waste  recycling  unit  viz.  20  TPD  refused derived  fuel  unit  has  been  installed  in  District  Giridih,  Jharkhand.A  list  of  registered plastic recycling plant in the State of Jharkhand is annexed as Annexure - I.
- (c) Around 200 Common Biomedical Waste Treatment Facilities (CBWTFs) are operating in 35 States/Union Territories. The state wise Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment Facilities is annexed as Annexure - II.

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## Annexure of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 2653 for 06.03.2020 raised by Shri Jayant Sinha on 'Management of Hazardous Wastes'

## Annexure -I

## List of registered plastic recycling plant in the State of Jharkhand

|   S.N. | District   | Name &Address of the unit                                                                 | Product with capacity                                 |
|--------|------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------|
|      1 | Bokaro     | M/s PepseeEnterprises,At- Sasbera, PO- I.E. Gomia, Dist- Bokaro                           | Plastic Sheet & Container - 125 Kg/day                |
|      2 | Jamshedpur | M/s Hi Tech Plastic,At-Haludbani, Duttapara, BagantolaRoad, Parsudih, Jamshedpur, 831002, | Plastic Sheet- 01MT/day,Plastic Granules- 1000 Kg/day |
|      3 | Ranchi     | M/s Polytek,Prop.AshimChandra,At- TupudanaInd.Area, Hatia, Ranchi.                        | Recycled Plastic granules                             |
|      4 | Ranchi     | M/s Wali& Brothers Plastics,At-Mauza- Hutup,PO-Ormanjhi,Dist-Ranchi.                      | Recycled Plastic granules                             |
|      5 | Ranchi     | M/s Lakhotia Plastic Industries,At- Industrial area,Kokar,Ranchi                          | Recycled plastic Sheet                                |

## Annexure of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 2653 for 06.03.2020 raised by Shri Jayant Sinha on 'Management of Hazardous Wastes'

Annexure - II

## State wise Common Bio-medical Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility in India

| S. No.   | Name of State                      | No. of CBWTFs in operation   |
|----------|------------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andaman Nicobar                    | Nil                          |
| 2.       | Andhra Pradesh                     | 11                           |
| 3.       | Arunachal Pradesh                  | Nil                          |
| 4.       | Assam                              | 1                            |
| 5.       | Bihar                              | 4                            |
| 6.       | Chandigarh                         | 1                            |
| 7.       | Chhattisgarh                       | 4                            |
| 8.       | Daman &Diu and Dadra &Nagar Haveli | 1                            |
| 9.       | Delhi                              | 2                            |
| 10.      | Goa                                | Nil                          |
| 11.      | Gujarat                            | 20                           |
| 12.      | Haryana                            | 11                           |
| 13.      | Himachal Pradesh                   | 3                            |
| 14.      | Jharkhand                          | 2                            |
| 15.      | J&K                                | 3                            |
| 16.      | Karnataka                          | 26                           |
| 17.      | Kerala                             | 1                            |
| 18.      | Lakshadweep                        | Nil                          |
| 19.      | Madhya Pradesh                     | 13                           |
| 20.      | Maharashtra                        | 31                           |
| 21.      | Manipur                            | 1                            |
| 22.      | Meghalaya                          | 1                            |
| 23.      | Mizoram                            | Nil                          |
| 24.      | Nagaland                           | Nil                          |
| 25.      | Orissa                             | 5                            |
| 26.      | Puducherry                         | 1                            |
| 27.      | Punjab                             | 4                            |
| 28.      | Rajasthan                          | 8                            |
| 29.      | Sikkim                             | Nil                          |
| 30.      | Tamil Nadu                         | 8                            |
| 31.      | Telengana                          | 11                           |
| 32.      | Tripura                            | 1                            |
| 33.      | Uttarakhand                        | 2                            |
| 34.      | Uttar Pradesh                      | 18                           |
| 35.      | West Bengal                        | 6                            |
|          | Total                              | 200                          |