Single National Portal for Registration for EPR under PWM Rules, 2016: Secretary, MoEFCC, GoI
December 18, 2021
New Delhi, 18 December 2021: Mr R P Gupta, Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, said the government will mandate a single national portal for registration for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016.
Addressing industry at the FICCI 94th Annual Convention, December 17-18, 2021, Mr Gupta said that the ministry's focus is on reducing the number of approvals and thereby improving the compliance requirements and focusing on the monitoring of compliance. He added that environment and development are not anti to each other, rather must co-exist with each other.
While sharing various government initiatives for ease of compliance, he emphasized EPR as a tool for circular economy and resource use efficiency and said the government will incentivize higher recovery and recycling and provide a free market mechanism for efficient solutions to the problem of plastic waste management. He also said that there will be a world-class portal for a single national-level registration for plastic waste management. This will be a comprehensive portal that will take everything to do with plastic waste management regulations and EPR and will also take care of the market-based certification mechanism for EPR.
Mr Gupta also acknowledged the fact that the ministry is conscious of the fact that increasing micron thickness will increase the GHG emissions and probably this is the only situation where measures for plastic waste management and reduction in GHG emissions are not going hand in hand, but the ministry is open to solution for alternatives going forward. Further, about climate change, Mr Gupta added that India will have a national carbon market in the future. He also opined that there should be technology-neutral and fuel neutral options for decarbonization of the transport sector.
Mr Kolluru Krishan, Chair,
FICCI Climate Change Committee and Chairman, CVC India Infrastructure Pvt Ltd, highlighted the
need for technology transfer, financial and market mechanisms as key enablers
to meet India's targets for climate change and green growth. He further stated
the need for a national carbon market, special transition fund for
decarbonization of the power sector. He also suggested that the government
could consider climate mitigation in the agriculture and animal husbandry
sector through non-market approaches under Article 6.8 of the Paris Agreement.
FICCI Media Division
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